Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

A REPORT OF THE EAST ASIA RESEARCH

PROGRAMME

Changing Contours

EDITORSSanjay Pulipaka

Saranya Sircar

East Asian Security

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A REPORT OF THE EAST ASIA RESEARCH PROGRAMME

Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations

East Asian SecurityChanging Contours

EditorsSanjay Pulipaka Saranya Sircar

March 2016

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Table of ContentsPreface v

1. Asia Needs Solidarity, Not AnxietySanjay Pulipaka 1

2. India and the Indo-Pacifi c Construct: Subscription and Substance?Pankaj K. Jha 3

3. China’s Approach to Regionalism in the Asia-Pacifi cMonika Chansoria 5

4. A Full-Spectrum Engagement: Assessing Abe’s Visit to IndiaSanjay Pulipaka 8

5. Maritime Security Cooperation in Asia-Pacifi c: A Perspective from IndiaDarshana M. Baruah 11

6. Trans-Pacifi c Partnership: US Attempts to Re-gain Leverage in “East Asia” Prerna Gandhi 14

7. China, United States and the Changing Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacifi c Amrita Jash 17

8. India’s Engagement of ASEAN: From Look East to Act East Sridhar Ramaswamy 20

9. Pharmaceutical Provisions in the Trans-Pacifi c Partnership: Implications for Indo-Japan Pharmaceutical TradeRahul Mongia 24

10. Reshaping the Global Financial Architecture: Role of New Development Bank (NDB) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Purva Singh 26

11. India Must Capitalise on Transnational Economic Corridors Sanjay Pulipaka 29

12. Security in Maritime-Asia: An Indian Perspective Abhijit Singh 32

13. Th e Quartet: US, China, India and Pakistan Nuclear Dynamics Arun Vishwanathan 34

14. Contours of Cruise Missiles Proliferation in Asia-Pacifi c Sitakanta Mishra 37

15. Nuclear Security Challenges in the Asia-Pacifi c Ruhee Neog 39

16. Assessing Xi Jinping’s Visit to the United States Graham Palmer 42

17. India’s Response to the US Pivot and Asian Geopolitics Sylvia Mishra 46

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18. Transition in Indonesia and Myanmar: Variations in Regime Outcome Sonu Trivedi 49

19. Political Transition in South Korea and its Impact on Korean Unifi cation Sudhakar Vaddi 55

20. Human Rights and ‘Asian Values’ – A Forced Dichotomy? Anandita Bagchi 58

21. Refugees and the Problem of Dubious Categorisation Arpan Acharya 62

22. Japanese Diplomacy Caught Between Means and Ends Nidhi Prasad 65

23. Unrest and Terrorism in China’s Xinjiang Avinash Godbole 68

24. Asia’s Rise and the Arc of Ethnic Unrest – China, India and Myanmar K. Yhome 70

25. Th e Asia-Pacifi c Region Krishnan Srinivasan 72

26. Asia-Pacifi c: 70 Years aft er the War H.K. Singh 77

27. India in the COP21 on Climate Change, Paris, November-December 2015 Saranya Sircar 82

28. Renewable Resilience and Smart Adaptation for Climate Change Impacts in South-East Asia Anshu Yadav 86

29. Capturing the Growth of Digital Nationalism in China Swetha Ramachandran 90

30. ODA, Economic Interdependence and Japan’s Foreign Policy Amrit Panda 95

31. Trans-Pacifi c Partnership Arunima Wanchoo 98

32. Canada’s Asia Pivot and Indo-Pacifi c: A Perspective from India Angana Guha Roy 102

Programmes 105

About the Editors 111

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Preface

Th e East Asia Research Programme (EARP) is hosted by the Indian Council for Research on Inter-national Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi. For the purposes of this programme, East Asia is defi ned as a region which consists of countries that are part of the East Asian Summit Forum, namely, ASEAN 10 plus India, the US, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Russia. Th e East Asia Research Programme acts as a forum for scholars to refl ect on political and security issues in the East Asian region, such as the regional balance of power, regional security architecture, multiple frameworks of engagement (bilateral/trilateral/quadrilateral), territorial/maritime disputes and non-traditional security issues.

In the past one year or so, the research programme organised numerous events to facilitate interac-tion among young scholars. Th e programme also adopted a multi-generational approach by promoting interactions between young researchers and established scholars. Th e majority of the commentaries in this report are of young scholars who have participated in the activities of the East Asia Research Programme. Th ey refl ect diff erent strands of thinking among the young scholars on the political and security issues of the larger East Asian region.

In the coming years, the research programme will seek to celebrate the diversity of viewpoints on the evolving security dynamic in the region. Further, the EARP seeks to evolve into a robust training and a collaborative platform for scholars not only in India but also of those in the larger East Asian region.

Sanjay Pulipaka Senior Consultant, ICRIER

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