{"id":27362,"date":"2018-10-23T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27362"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:56:10","slug":"s-korea-wants-to-elevate-ties-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/s-korea-wants-to-elevate-ties-with-india\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea wants to elevate ties with India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/s-korea-wants-to-elevate-ties-with-india\/article24988305.ece\">S. Korea wants to elevate ties with India<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>South Korea recently announced a \u2018<strong>New Southern Policy<\/strong>\u2019 to develop its relations with South-East Asia and ASEAN.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Reasons \u00a0for the \u2018New Southeastern Policy\u2019<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>To manage the challenge of North Korea.<\/li>\n<li>Lesser focus earlier on Southeast Asia compared to Northeast Asian States like China and Japan.<\/li>\n<li>Advancement of Seoul by its middle power diplomatic efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Building an inclusive regional architecture in Asia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>South Korea, as part of this strategy, wants to build stronger ties with ASEAN and India on multiple fronts like economic, bilateral and strategic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>3<strong>.Engagement with India<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is convergence of approach between India and South Korea towards regional issues.<\/li>\n<li>Both sides are concerned about \u00a0maritime security in the region.<\/li>\n<li>The increasing influence of China in South China Sea and India Ocean region is also being watched.<\/li>\n<li>South Korea sees India as the main partner in expanding their economy. Both sides have agreed to boost bilateral trade to $50 billion by 2030 from $20 billion now.<\/li>\n<li>South Korea wants \u00a0to elevate diplomatic \u00a0ties with India to the level of four other major powers around the Korean Peninsula namely the U.S., China, Russia and Japan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>South Korea\u2019s approach towards Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>South Korea favours BRI but accuses China\u2019s unilateral approach and pursues for more open and transparent policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>South Korea also warned to countries borrowing from China for big ticket infrastructure projects of possible debt trap later.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. Korea wants to elevate ties with India News: South Korea recently announced a \u2018New Southern Policy\u2019 to develop its relations with South-East Asia and ASEAN. Important Facts: Reasons \u00a0for the \u2018New Southeastern Policy\u2019. To manage the challenge of North Korea. Lesser focus earlier on Southeast Asia compared to Northeast Asian States like China and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/s-korea-wants-to-elevate-ties-with-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S. Korea wants to elevate ties with India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704816165},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}