India, June 3 -- Britain is developing the bilateral defence relationship with India, including in the Indian Ocean region, in view of the latter's role on the global stage, according to the UK government's radical defence overhaul to meet new challenges and threats.

The UK's Strategic Defence Review 2025, unveiled late on Monday, sets out the growing threats faced by Britain, including from China, which the report said is "increasingly leveraging its economic, technological, and military capabilities" to establish dominance in the Indo-Pacific and erode US influence.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has pledged the largest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War, commissioned the defence review soon...