US needs an India-centred outlook in Asia
February 23, 2020
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, Dr. Jagannath Panda’s Op-ed on ‘US needs an India-centred outlook in Asia’ has been published in The Sunday Guardian on February 23, 2020.
The piece argues that the durability of the US-led international system is heavily dependent on India’s rise in Asia. A stronger partnership with India will only increase the American influence in the region, which has been subject to test with Xi Jinping’s BRI. Building ports, strategic points and military bases have been core to Xi’s BRI diplomacy. In such a background, ensuring pro-democratic regimes across the region becomes strategic necessity and the US will certainly need India on such a mission more than any other power in the region’.
