EU and India: Emerging Partners in the Indo-Pacific

Abstract

This descriptive research aims at identifying emerging trends in the growing EU and India partnership and analyzes how it will affect the new chessboard of great powers in the Indo-Pacific region. Analyzing EU-India Global Infrastructure Deal, The EU-India Strategic Partnership: A Roadmap to 2025, and the EU’s Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, this paper contends that the EU, India, and even the US are formulating alliances to counter China’s growing influence in the region. However, their efforts are far from bearing any fruitful results due to the economic size of China’s Belt Road Initiative (BRI). Moreover, the financial stakes of the EU countries with China and the lack of lucrative alternatives to BRI are also contributing factors to the failure of any such designs.