Ocean’s eleven | The Indian Express

Ocean’s eleven | The Indian Express

Written by Gautam Bambawale |Published: July 3, 2019 1:58:37 am

Bambawale, a former Indian Ambassador to Bhutan, Pakistan and China, is currently a distinguished professor at Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune.

Ocean’s eleven

India and ASEAN agree on their outlook to the Indo-Pacific. They must act in concert.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Source: Twitter/@MEAIndia)

At the 34th ASEAN summit in Bangkok, the leaders of the 10-nation grouping finally came out with their positions on the Indo-Pacific region in a document titled ‘ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific’. While ASEAN has not spelt out what it considers to geographically constitute the region, there appear to be several similarities between the Indian and ASEAN approaches to this critical subject.