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Look East policy (India)
India's foreign policy dealing with South-East Asian nations / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Act East policy[1] is an effort by the Government of India to cultivate extensive economic and strategic relations with the nations of Southeast Asia to bolster its standing as a regional power and a counterweight to the strategic influence of the People's Republic of China. Initiated in 1991, the Look East policy by Indian government marked a strategic shift in India’s perspective of the world.[2] It was developed and enacted during the government of Prime Minister Narsimha Rao (1991–1996) and rigorously pursued by the successive administrations of Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1998–2004) and Manmohan Singh (2004–2014).
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The success of the Look East policy enthused Indian foreign ministry officials to develop the policy into more action-oriented, project- and outcome-based policy.[3] After a couple of decades, India’s Act East policy, which was announced in 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration, became a successor to the Look East policy.[3][4][5][6][7][8]