Overview
- Posting on X on Wednesday, Jairam Ramesh said the Modi government follows a '4C' policy of 'Continuing, Calibrated Capitulation to China' and is painting Great Nicobar critics as 'soft on China'.
- He said the Rs 81,000 crore plan is a commercial trans-shipment port and township with no military role and warned of heavy ecological damage and displacement.
- Ramesh alleged the project would benefit the 'Modani' business empire and said proposals to boost naval assets at INS Baaz and other bases were ignored.
- He pointed to a roughly USD 115 billion trade gap with China in 2025–26, reported loss of patrolling and grazing access in Ladakh, and the 2020 'clean chit' after Galwan.
- He also cited officer accounts that China aided Pakistan in May 2025’s Operation Sindoor, while the coverage records no new government rebuttal beyond past claims that the island plan is strategic.