Anil Trigunayat is Distinguished Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. A former career diplomat, he served as Ambassador of India to Jordan, Libya and Malta.
Going by the economic growth patterns of China, India, Japan, South Korea and ASEAN countries with corresponding decline in the Western economic heft, it was often claimed that the 21st century will be the Asian Century. This might be in doubt due to the pandemic and geopolitical contestation between China and the US, where new faultlines are being drawn. Moreover, India and China being in a potential conflict zone, the dream of the Asian Century might have receded even further.