{"id":29910,"date":"2018-10-26T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29910"},"modified":"2018-10-26T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:31:06","slug":"the-new-south-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-new-south-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018new\u2019 South Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/the-new-south-asia\/article23579044.ece\"><strong>The \u2018new\u2019 South Asia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As China\u2019s leverage increases, New Delhi has to reimagine its terms of engagement with neighbours<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHOGM meet in London<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>India\u2019s declining regional clout<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is now the refrain that India has lost the plot in its immediate vicinity<\/li>\n<li>In Sri Lanka, domestic political developments are affecting India, while in the Maldives, India has found its diminishing clout being publicly taken apart<\/li>\n<li>A vocal critic of India has assumed power in Nepal, and with a massive political mandate<\/li>\n<li>In the Seychelles, India is struggling to operationalise a pact to build a military facility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>China\u2019s influence growing in the region<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China\u2019s clout, meanwhile, is growing markedly around India\u2019s periphery, further constraining New Delhi\u2019s ability to push its regional agenda.<\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s entry into the South Asian region has opened up new avenues for smaller neighbours which can be leveraged in their dealings with India<strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Problems for India\u2019s neighborhood policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s structural dominance of South Asia makes it a natural target of resentment and suspicion which New Delhi has often found difficult to overcome<\/li>\n<li>India is also part of the domestic politics of most regional states where anti-India sentiment is often used to bolster the nationalist credentials of various political formations<strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India will not only have to more creatively reimagine its strategic geography but also evolve new terms of engagement with its neighbours; terms which reflect the reality of our times in which both India and its neighbours can have a stake in each other\u2019s success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018new\u2019 South Asia Context As China\u2019s leverage increases, New Delhi has to reimagine its terms of engagement with neighbours Background CHOGM meet in London \u00a0India\u2019s declining regional clout There is now the refrain that India has lost the plot in its immediate vicinity In Sri Lanka, domestic political developments are affecting India, while in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-new-south-asia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The \u2018new\u2019 South Asia<\/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-29910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29910","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=29910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}