Geopolitics
The Act East Illusion: How Turmoil in Bangladesh and Myanmar Exposes India's Strategic Paralysis
India's Act East Policy faces its most severe test from escalating turmoil in Bangladesh and Myanmar, which threatens to derail its strategic outreach through the crucial BIMSTEC corridor. This paralysis exposes the painful gap between India's grand strategic vision and its inability to project decisive, stabilizing power in its own immediate neighborhood, a failure that imperils the prosperity of its own Northeast.
