India and China, the two “major rising powers” on the world stage, could be jostling for scarce resources by way of their ?blue water navies?, says the chief organiser of a new US intelligence assessment.
Mathew Burrows, the Counsellor of National Intelligence Council and the principal organiser of the ‘Global Trends for 2025’, essentially listed the various challenges and opportunities put out by the assessment report, including on countries like India and China getting entangled over scarce resources.
On the issue of rivalry over resources, Burrows argued that the world has witnessed “a little bit” already.
“China, India developing blue navies, worries about maintaining their access to energy, rivalries elsewhere in the developing world and Africa. And so this is another concern.
It is a type of conflict we have not seen for some time,” Burrows said at the Washington Foreign Press Centre.
In the report titled ‘Global Trends-2025, A World Transformed’, India and China have been identified as “major rising powers” in an emerging multi-polar world.
The report by the US Directorate of National Intelligence said that this could bring in “new stakes and rules of the game” in the international arena.
“We believe chances are good that India and China will continue to rise, but their ascent is not guaranteed and both will have to overcome high economic and social hurdles,” the report said.