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Explain the major flaws in India’s ‘Look East Policy’. Is it possible to steer and implement the policy successfully in view of China’s emergence as a high-tech power in Asia-Pacific?

  • UPSC 2011
  • 30 marks
  • India and South Asia

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India's Look East Policy began in 1991–92 as a turn toward Southeast Asian markets after the balance-of-payments crisis and the end of the Soviet partnership. Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh widened it to the Asia-Pacific. Its flaws lie in design and delivery rather than direction. Whether it can be steered successfully against a technologically…

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  • The major flaws
  • Can it be steered and implemented against a high-tech China?
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