Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha in India for Independence Day ceremonies last January. Indian cooperation with Asean is central to its new policy of outlook. After all, it was before the rise of China, the decline in US influence, Japan's strategic-oriented foreign policy and the establishment of the Asean Community. Last week, in the keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's annual security conference, also in Singapore, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi revitalised the staid, almost-three-decades-old policy with a more dynamic and holistic approach. Judging from the details of the Indo-Pacific policy outlined by Mr Modi, it is succinctly clear that India wants to be treated as a global power that can reinforce and sustain the liberal international order.

Source: Bangkok Post June 04, 2018 21:45 UTC