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Chinese, satellite and ballistic missile ships, Yuan Wang 5, currently maps the Sri Lanka southern Indian Indian Ocean (1100 Miles) so that it has led to the possibility of Beijing to explore the new sea route to the East African shipping with bypassing with the Malacca Strait, Sundanese, and Lombok contested.
According to information available, the 11000-ton ship moved far to the Indian Ocean and will continue towards the Shanghai homeport through the Strait of Ombai-Wembar near East and North of Timor Australia.
The strategic ship has become a struggle between India and China after which previously voiced its concern over the ship that was permitted to dock at the Hambantota port by the Ranil Wickremesinghe regime.
Hambantota Port was rented out to China for 99 years in 2017 by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in debt for the exchange of equity because Sri Lanka failed in Chinese loans. The ship left Hambantota on August 22 after Sri Lanka refunds the ship with food, diesel, oil and lubricant.
With the Strait of Malacca, Sunda and Lombok in Indonesia, all of which are monitored by India through ships and UAV predators because they are near Andamans and Nicobar Islands, Navy experts believe that Yuan Wang 5 might map new routes to East Africa that are not allowing Indian Navy to carry out lessders on Chinese ships.
The new route will fully avoid the shortest sea communication route from the South China Sea to the Bay of Persia and Aden Bay and take a longer route through the Warikan Strait.
This new route will allow Chinese ships that are not blocked by access to the East African coast, where Beijing has invested a lot under The Belt Road Initiative (BRI) and has also established a base in Djibouti. The new route will be far south of Sri Lanka and will allow easy access to Chinese ships to ports such as Mombasa in Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambik.
Mapping the seabed also helps in anti-submarine operations because the equator is complicated due to significant differences between the surface and sub-surface temperature.
