India's Indo‐Pacific Strategy: A Pragmatic Balancing between the United States and China

Liu, Hongsong; Jamali, Ahmed Bux

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“…With the same concern about the rise of China in its neighborhood, India and Australia were quick to endorse the Indo-Pacific concept even though they had their own visions. India's motivation to embrace the concept of the Indo-Pacific is to enhance its strategic autonomy by joining others to limit the Chinese behaviors in the Indian Ocean (Liu & Jamali, 2021). Australia's primary focus of the Indo-Pacific term is to safeguard its influence in the Pacific Islands region, an area where China has stepped up its engagement (Haruku, 2020).…”

Section: Geopolitical Power Rivalry In the Indo-pacificmentioning

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Navigating the Storm: How ASEAN Managed the Great Power Competition Through the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific

2023

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As it has globally, geopolitical competition has intensified in the Indo-Pacific. It is a competition between and among major powers; Japan competes with China, US-led allies challenge China’s assertiveness, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a hinge in and a battleground. Situated at the heart of this region, ASEAN is under significant pressure. To set out their views and navigate through this turbulent time, ASEAN leaders released “the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific” in June 2019. This paper seeks to answer how Outlook is used to help ASEAN maintain its central role in the Indo-Pacific region. The paper also discusses the internal and external challenges ASEAN faces in implementing its vision. Externally, rising power competition is a force pulling ASEAN apart. Internal to ASEAN, differences in the national interests of the member states remain roadblocks. The paper also tries to depict a future for ASEAN. Towards the end, it makes some recommendations for ASEAN to move forward. In the end, strong cohesion of the member states is probably the key to mutual prosperity and expanded influence, but can this be achieved when the forces of division have become so much greater? Keywords: ASEAN Outlook; The Indo-Pacific; Institutional hedging; Great power competition

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Navigating the Storm: How ASEAN Managed the Great Power Competition Through the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific

2023

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“…Taking account of New Delhi's strategy and its ambitions in the region, Beijing is in pursuit of its policy framework that is based on exploiting tools with the growing challenges to its interests in the region. Presently, China is responding through its "String of Pearls" policy and "two-ocean strategy" that points toward its swiftly increasing presence in the areas stretching from Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and beyond 33 .…”

Section: China`s Response In Asia-pacificmentioning

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Containing China: The Indo-US Defence Cooperation

Sher Ali Kakar

2022

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The rise of China has challenged the US global dominance, which it has held since the fall of the erstwhile USSR three decades ago. The United States is engaged in strategic efforts to contain the rise of China and retain its supremacy in the world. To this end, it has strengthened relations with regional countries, particularly India, which has emerged as a top US ally in the region. The US and India have considerably cemented their strategic partnership in recent years based on shared concerns about a rising China. This paper argues that the US wants India as a security provider to counterbalance China, while India seeks the US and western support to enhance its military capabilities to counterweigh China and become a regional hegemon, creating an imbalance in the region. Against this backdrop, this research paper is an attempt to recount important developments in India-US defence relations, focusing on bilateral deals, nuclear collaboration, and maritime cooperation vis-à-vis China's growing power and influence in the region. Besides, the study examines the implications of Indo-US defence cooperation on regional stability, particularly for Pakistan, which is already facing security challenges arising from Indian strategic intentions. This research has been conducted using a qualitative method of analysis and using both primary and secondary sources of data collection.

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“…India is "recalibrating" its strategy to counter the BRI, especially the Maritime Silk Road (D. M. Ollapally, 2016;Pant & Saha, 2020). India's Indo-Pacific Strategy is a "pragmatic balancing" between the U.S. and China (H. Liu & Jamali, 2021). India is taking a "hesitant realist" approach ---"continuing the strategic autonomy with a multi-alignment approach it has favored, but with a keener sense of realpolitik it is pressing ahead to deepen its defence and strategic alignments with like-minded nations in the Indo-Pacific region", especially with Tokyo and Canberra (P. Jain, 2021).…”

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Encountering the BRI: India’s Pride and Prejudice?

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India and China, two competing developing nations in the Global South, are the two most populous countries in the world. In the twenty-first century, China not only became the nation with the fastest rate of economic growth globally and a rising rival to the West, but also started to focus its outward strategy on attracting developing nations in the global south with its Belt and Road Initiative. This initiative, which seeks to speed up development by financing infrastructure and connectivity projects, should appeal to India, which also seeks to accelerate its development but has a significant infrastructure deficit. India, however, declined to take part in this program. The causes and consequences of this rejection are examined in this dissertation; it weighs both realist and constructivist explanations and comes down in favor of constructivist explanations rooted in the construction of "self" and "other". This dissertation examines India's rationale towards its encounters with China by taking the historical and cultural contexts of the construction of state identity into account. The theory of identity formation in relation to self

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India's Indo‐Pacific Strategy: A Pragmatic Balancing between the United States and China

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Navigating the Storm: How ASEAN Managed the Great Power Competition Through the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific

Navigating the Storm: How ASEAN Managed the Great Power Competition Through the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific

Containing China: The Indo-US Defence Cooperation

Encountering the BRI: India’s Pride and Prejudice?

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