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US Security Strategy of Asian Rebalance: India’s Role and Concerns
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A Look East, Act East engagement policy is proposed in this paper to deal with the Chinese threat and India has developed close economic and strategic relations with the US and its Asia-Pacific allies.Abstract:
China’s aggressive rise and strained relations with its Asia-Pacific neighbours—a region with immense economic and strategic potential—have forced the US to forge a strategy of Asian rebalance. Besides making China suspicious, this strategy has aroused the possibility of a new cold war. In contrast, though India’s relations with China have improved considerably since the 1962 War, the unresolved border issue and the threatening Chinese attitude do not allow India to trust China. To deal with the Chinese threat, India has devised a Look East, Act East engagement policy as well as developed close economic and strategic relations with the US and its Asia-Pacific allies. Although the concern of strategic autonomy deters India from being an active partner of US strategy, China’s all-weather friendship with Pakistan and encirclement through infrastructure in its neighbourhood as well as Xi Jinping’s Chinese dream have left limited options for India. Therefore, this article aims to analyse the implicatio...read more
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The US pivot and Indian foreign policy: Asia's evolving balance of power
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A Geostrategic and Geo-economic Study of China-Bangladesh Relations Regarding the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean
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Rebalancing to Asia with an Insecure China
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