Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr. Titli Basu’s article titled, ‘India’s Northeast is the gateway to greater Indo-Pacific engagement’ has been published in East Asia Forum on January 31, 2020.
India’s Northeastern states – a strategic plank situated between Delhi and Southeast Asia over the Bay of Bengal – anchor the convergence of Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) vision and India’s Act East policy. The article explores the contours of India-Japan cooperation in terms of infrastructure financing in the Northeast, one of the key frontiers in India’s Indo-Pacific engagement.