India poured money to build infrastructure on Mauritius's North Agalega Island, but this is likely to be Chinese counterweight military base.

India in 2015 signed the Northern Agalega Island Infrastructure Investment Agreement in Mauritius Island in South Indian Ocean.

Indian workers are building two large breakwaters and a runway longer than 3 km on the island.

Satellite photos show Northern Agalega island before (left) and after building a large-scale runway.

Mauritius and India all denied that infrastructure was being built on the island serving military purposes.

In May, Prime Minister Mauritius Pravind Jugnauth also confirmed this island and India did not have an agreement to build any military base in North Agalega.

However, experts expressed doubt of these statements, because the investment of $ 250 million that India poured into the island to build airports, harbors and communication stations hard to stop at support

ABHISHEK Mishra, the Observe Research Fund Specialist (ORF) in New Delhi, evaluating the newly built infrastructure on the island will perform the role of intelligence information.

Location India and North Agalega Island.

Samuel Bashfield, a security researcher at the Australian National University, said the island was the perfect military base building position.

Northern Agalega is a strategic meaning in Southwest Indian Ocean, the area is being considered blind spots for Indian navies.

In addition to works such as sea dykes and large runways, some potential infrastructure used for military purposes have also been built on the island.

Mishra said India wants to hide the true purpose of these bases to continue its opposition to the regional military.

A Boeing P-8i sea patrol plane in the Indian Navy payroll.

According to Bashfield, India's main goal when investing in construction based on Northern Agalega island is to counterbausing Chinese activities in the Indian Ocean and the sea is becoming a new focus in the tricks between the two

India can publicly declare the project to enhance the ability to monitor the sea situation in the Northern Agalega Island to prevent piracy, develop search and rescue capacity, or support small countries to build capacity

Competitive influence in the Indian Ocean is increasingly fierce, when China promotes power through the military base network, the seaport is located on pearl chains in neighboring countries surrounding India, forcing New Delhi

The goal in the Northern Agalega Island Building Agreement between India and Mauritius is the turning of the island into an important tie in the plan to expand India's influence across the region.

The strategic importance of Southwest Indian Oceans is growing over the past time.

This base helps India increase the capacity to track from the air against the entire Southwest Indian Ocean.