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Internal political constraints dog it currently, but if overcome, South Africa can be a good chairman to BRICS and IORA in 2018. It also has a tough balancing act to perform between two great Asian powers, China and India
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Prime Minister Modi's Act East policy is taking visible shape as leaders of the 10 Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) take their place as chief guests at India's 2018 Republic Day celebrations. This is unprecedented as New Delhi’s January 26 celebration has never had this large a number of chief guests. The year 2017 marked 50 years of ASEAN’s creation, and also 25 years of India-ASEAN relations.
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The year-old UDAN Regional Connectivity Scheme has mobilised India’s aviation sector, helping consolidate a domestic market for its indigenous commercial aircraft. It can similarly nurture strategic emerging industries – if a national transportation policy is put in place
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Ambassador Rajiv Bhatia participated as a speaker on a DD News panel 'India First: India-ASEAN @ 25 commemorative summit'
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Ambassador Rajiv Bhatia, Distinguished Fellow, Gateway House and former Ambassador to Myanmar, participated in a podcast regarding the Rohingya Crisis and the repatriation of the refugees, conducted by the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS)
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Ambassador Rajiv Bhatia featured in a special programme from DD News on 'India-ASEAN @ 25 Commemorative Summit'
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Manjeet Kripalani, Executive Director, Gateway House, was a speaker at the 'Future Global Leaders' event organised by Avid Learning and the U.S. Consulate General in Mumbai.
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This is a partnership that has been based on mutuality, economic cooperation and undisputed political closeness ever since ASEAN’s inception. Now, the path into the future has to be different: creating a new security architecture and determining ASEAN’s role in the Quad are overarching questions that cannot be wished away
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Gateway House experts, Akshay Mathur, Neelam Deo and Sameer Patil, attended the Raisina Dialogue 2018, hosted by the Observer Research Foundation.
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Manjeet Kripalani was mentioned in an article by the Indian Express on a recent report released by the U.S. India Task Force of the Center for American Progress