China-India-Japan in the Indo-Pacific: Ideas, Interests and Infrastructure

Jagannath P. Panda
Archive data: Person was Research Fellow at MP-IDSA till March 2022 Dr. Jagannath Panda was a Research Fellow and Coordinator of the East Asia Centre at MP-IDSA, New Delhi. He… Continue reading China-India-Japan in the Indo-Pacific: Ideas, Interests and Infrastructure read more
Titli Basu
Dr Titli Basu was Associate Fellow at the East Asia Centre. Her research interests include Japanese security, strategy and foreign policy; Japan and the Indo-Pacific; great power politics in East… Continue reading China-India-Japan in the Indo-Pacific: Ideas, Interests and Infrastructure read more
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ISBN: 978-93-86618-42-9
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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
  2. PART I: DECODING THE CHINESE STRATEGY

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 Xi Jinping’s Chinese Dream in the Indian Ocean Region:Time to Move beyond Outdated Maritime Strategies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

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

  17. The Strategic Implications of Maritime Infrastructure Developments in the Indo-Pacific
    — Lee Cordner
  18. 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
  19. Japan, India and China on Africa: Global Ambitions and Human Resource Development
    — Kenneth King
  20. Realising ‘Make in India’: Port-led Development in the Indian Ocean
    — Titli Basu
  21. India’s Transformed ‘Continental-Nautical’ Strategy: Rebooted Connectivity-Based Infrastructure-Compact
    — Dattesh D. Parulekar
  22. The Belt and Road Initiative and Southeast Asia
    — Munmun Majumdar
  23. Index

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Keywords: China, India, Indo-Pacific, Japan