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    ISAS Briefs

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    227 : India Eyeing a New Gateway to Southeast Asia

    Chilamkuri Raja Mohan

    26 January 2012

    India’s strategic objective of establishing close connectivity with Southeast Asia has received fresh impetus following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s talks with Thai leader Yingluck Shinawatra and with Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Maung Lwin in New Delhi at this time. Coming into focus now is the interest expressed by India in associating itself with Thailand’s ambitious plans of developing an infrastructure hub at Dawei in southeastern Myanmar.