| Event Title: | Seminar |
| Topic: | Revisiting IndiaÔÇÖs Look East Policy: India-China Relations in Asia |
| Date/Time: | 03 December 2014 | 00:00 - 12:35 |
| Venue: | ISAS Board Room |
| Speaker/s: | Dr Frederic Grare, Senior Associate & Director, South Asia Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| Description: | Initiated in the early 1990s, IndiaÔÇÖs Look East Policy (LEP) no longer aims exclusively at attracting foreign direct investment from ASEAN countries in which capital is abundant. As a more secure and self-confident India has emerged as a major player in Asia, the concept has broadened geographically and substantively. Although it keeps ASEAN as its core, it now encompasses East Asia (including China) and Australia, and includes a substantial strategic component. The LEP has become a truly multipronged policy with economic, political and strategic dimensions. Yet the LEP is still a work in progress which takes place in a context characterized by the permanent race a race between the development of IndiaÔÇÖs indigenous, economic, political, military and administrative capabilities and the ongoing power shifts in Asia. |