Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Vinod Popat | Maujvani.com As competition intensifies between the United States and China, a new centre of global strategy is emerging—not in the Pacific, but in the Indian Ocean. And India, by virtue of geography, is positioned at the heart of it. India on the World’s Energy Highway Most oil travelling from the Middle East to East Asia moves through the Indian Ocean. Tankers sailing from the Persian Gulf to China, Japan, and South Korea pass close to India’s coastline. China and Japan rely heavily on the narrow Strait of Malacca. India does not. Its broad…