印度加速实施潜艇现代化计划

India is moving ahead with efforts to modernize its submarine fleet amid concerns over China's growing naval presence in the Indian Ocean.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government accelerated the bidding process for six new diesel-electric submarines. These are in addition to six similar submarines under construction by a French company in Mumbai.

The push comes just months after a stand-off along the disputed border dividing India and China in the Himalayas, and as Chinese submarines have docked in Sri Lanka, the island nation off India's southern coast.

India told Sri Lanka that the Chinese presence there was unacceptable to New Delhi.

Beijing insisted the submarines were on refueling stops during anti piracy missions in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.  This did not allay concerns in New Delhi.

印度总理莫迪的政府加快了六艘新柴电动力潜艇的竞标进程。此外，一家法国公司正在孟买建造六艘类似的潜艇。

数月前，印度和中国在喜马拉雅地区有争议的边界一带发生对峙，同时中国潜艇在斯里兰卡停泊。岛国斯里兰卡与印度南部海岸隔海相望。

印度向斯里兰卡表示，无法接受中国海军的存在。

中国坚持说，潜艇是在印度洋和亚丁湾执行打击海盗任务时停泊加油，但这种说法并未减轻印度方面的忧虑。