“ACT EAST” POLICY AS INDIA’S RESPONSE TO CHINA EXPANSION
Abstract
This article aims to explain India’s Foreign Policy
change in 2014 from ‘Look East’ policy to ‘Act East’
policy. India as world’s largest democracy and a rising
power has excericed her power in both South Asia and
Indian Ocean. On the other side, China’s assertiveness in
those two regions. The trigger of this foreign policy
change is China’s strategies in which China aims to enter
European market Where the trading paths are through
Indian Ocean littoral countries including South Asia.
These strategies are famously known as The String of
Pearls and One Belt One Road (OBOR) where China is
trying to create hegemony mainly with economic aid and
infrastructure development. By Hegemonic Stability
Theory from Robert Keohane and Securitization Theory
from Barry Buzan, this article shows the periodical
events for India’s foreign policy progress, China’s
approaches to achieve its interest, and how India’s action
to contain power and influences from another county in
Indian Ocean littoral countries