India to build greenfield airport in Andaman & Nicobar Islands to counter China

India will build a greenfield airport in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands while also extending the runways of two existing military airstrips, a move meant to counter China's presence in the Indian Ocean. According to Bloomberg, this will cost $1.6 billion. "We expect the first flights to start operating in around three years," said the islands' administrator Admiral DK Joshi.