MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 05 APRIL 2021 – 11 APRIL 2021

A Freedom of Navigation patrol by the USS John Paul Jones through India’s Exclusive Economic Zone, without the prior consent of the Indian government shows that the two QUAD partners still have to iron-out fundamental issues vital to their strategic relationship. In Japan, the deployment of the PLA Navy’s sole carrier task force in the Miyako Strait Japanese air and sea assets was viewed as a retaliatory measure against the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s entry into the South China Sea.