About The Book

This book analyses the competing power politics that exists between the three major Asian powers - China, India, and Japan - on infrastructural development across the Indo-Pacific. It examines the competing policies and perspectives of these Asian powers on infrastructure development initiatives and explores the commonalities and contradictions between them that shape their ideas and interests. In brief, the volume looks into the strategic contention that exists between China's "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI; earlier officially known as "One Belt, One Road" - OBOR) and Japan's "Expanded Partnership for Quality Infrastructure" (PQI) and initiatives like the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) and position India's geostrategic and geo-economic interests in between these two competing powers and their mammoth infrastructural initiatives.

About the Editors

• Dr. Jagannath P. Panda is Research Fellow and Centre Coordinator for East Asia at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
• Dr. Titli Basu is an Associate Fellow the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

1. Introduction
   -- Jagannath P. Panda and Titli Basu

PART I: DECODING THE CHINESE STRATEGY

2. Belt and Road Initiative: An Effective Future-orientedInstrument of China’s Economic Development and Diplomatic Expansion?
   -- Justyna Szczudlik
3. China’s Security Governance Conception for Asia: Perspectives from India
   -- Susanne Kamerling
4. Reflection on OBOR: A Test of Out-of-the-box Thinking: A Chinese Perspective
   -- Huang Yunsong
5. All-rounded Sino-Indian Competition? China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Implications for South Asia
   -- Simon Shen
6. Beijing’s OBOR Initiative and Taiwan: Beyond theInfrastructure Gambit
   -- Ming-Shih Shen
7. The Impact of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)on India-Pakistan Relations
   -- Christian Wagner
8. Xi Jinping’s Chinese Dream in the Indian Ocean Region:Time to Move beyond Outdated Maritime Strategies
   -- Sukjoon Yoon

PART II: EVOLVING JAPANESE NARRATIVES

9. China’s OBOR Initiative and Japan’s Response: The AbeDoctrine, Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy andJapan-India Strategic Partnership
   --Yasuyuki Ishida
10. Japan’s Struggle in China-led Asian Economic Order: Reactive Initiatives in Asian Infrastructure
    -- Takashi Terada
11. Infrastructure Development in Asia: Japan’s New Initiativesand Its Cooperation with India
    -- Ryohei Kasai
12. China in Japan-India Security Ties: Infrastructure as a Factor
    -- Satoru Nagao
13. Asia’s Democratic Security Diamond in the Indo-Pacific Region: A Maritime Perspective
    -- Takuya Shimodaira

PART III: REFLECTIONS ON INDIA AND THE INDO-PACIFIC

14. The Strategic Implications of Maritime Infrastructure Developments in the Indo-Pacific
    -- Lee Cordner
15. Soft Balancing: Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC), India-Japan Arch in contrast to the Belt and RoadInitiative (BRI) and China’s Rising Influence
    -- Jagannath P. Panda
16. Japan, India and China on Africa: Global Ambitions and Human Resource Development
    -- Kenneth King
17. Realising ‘Make in India’: Port-led Development in the Indian Ocean
    -- Titli Basu
18. India’s Transformed ‘Continental-Nautical’ Strategy: Rebooted Connectivity-Based Infrastructure-Compact
    -- Dattesh D. Parulekar
19. The Belt and Road Initiative and Southeast Asia
    -- Munmun Majumdar

Index

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