Asia is expected to incrementally con- coming years in the economic and po- tribute a higher proportion to global litical-strategic spheres? How will India India’s orientation to the East began to GDP and trade over the next couple of engage with countries in this region as it change in the 1990s with the initiation decades than in the past. [...] The centre of assumes greater economic, political and of the official “Look East” policy and was gravity of the global economy is shift- strategic salience in the world? then strengthened more recently with ing gradually from the Atlantic Ocean the enunciation of the “Act East” poli- towards the Indo-Pacific after almost Within East and South East Asia, a dense cy. [...] For all the talk about in India, China, Japan, and in the West less caught up in the sharp edges of deglobalisation, trade remains roughly and the rest of the world. [...] had deep and profoundly significant our geopolitical positioning as well as The shifts in the earth’s environment - historical links in many dimensions – the social gaze in an evolving India, climate change, the loss of biodiversity, cultural, intellectual, social, trade, and Southeast Asia, and a good part of the and the global water crisis - are the so on. [...] The economic heft and which would enable lower per capita military might of the US were crucial in Over the past several decades, with the Asian economies to gradually catch up designing economic exchanges between help of the imported capital and markets with the more affluent Association of the West and several newly independent of the developed West, initially Japan Southeast Asian Nations (ASEA.
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