Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

The Asian continent has experienced the rise of democracies and autocracies in the region with the end of Second World War. India after spending more than seventy years of independence has been successful in becoming a consolidated democracy in the region while on the other side; China has followed autocratic policy to meet domestic stability and economic superiority without espousing the values of human freedom and human rights. Recently, China has launched OBOR to integrate the Asia and rest of the world so that it can become the centripetal of all economic, technological, and cultural activities. As a part of OBOR policy, China, however, did not shy away in following the policies of arm-twisting (South China Sea), buying of ports and lands in the littoral countries (Maldives and Sri Lanka) of Indian Ocean with the help of its strong materialistic resources. China has also unquestionably supported the authoritarian leaders such as Mohammed Yameen and Mahinda Rajapaksa so that a strong patron-client relationship can be established. The result is that China’s OBOR is facing a major hurdle from India because China has bypassed the democratic processes to establish OBOR and therefore, India might become the cause of its failure in Asia. Hence, the paper examines the case of democratic India’s policy in Indian Ocean and how China’s non-democratic measure in terms of OBOR is unfeasible for the holistic political, economic, and cultural development and democratization of Indian Ocean.