The new Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has revitalized the
country’s economic and foreign policy prospects after years of drift under the
previous Congress Party-led administration. India today is showing a new
intensity of engagement with East Asian powers like China and Japan, and with
its South Asian neighbors. The Modi administration is also incrementally but
tangibly reforming the country’s statist economy in order to seed growth and
produce the jobs necessary to employ what is becoming the world’s biggest
workforce. To date, European focus on Asia has primarily been on China; it is
time for Europe to seize the moment in relations with Asia’s other emerging
giant to promote peace, pluralism, and prosperity
