'Omnipresent danger' to stability of South Asia due to China's ambitions: General Rawat

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat today said that China's ambitions and aspirations to global power presented an "omnipresent danger" to stability in South Asia.

China is making "huge" inroads in South Asia and in the Indian Ocean region to strengthen its position as an emerging global power, he said, while delivering the first Ravi Kant Singh Memorial Lecture here.

"Of late, we are witnessing a geo-strategic competition and huge investment by China in the region to create a favourable posture to provide sufficient security to its interests," he said.