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Discuss the strategic implications of India’s ‘Look East Policy’ transforming into ‘Act East Policy’. (150 words)

  • UPSC 2021
  • 10 marks
  • India and South Asia

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The Look East Policy of P. V. Narasimha Rao's government (1991–92) was chiefly economic: Southeast Asian markets and capital after the 1991 crisis. When Narendra Modi told the East Asia Summit at Nay Pyi Taw in November 2014 that it had become Act East, the change was one of register more than of verbs: the…

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