abstract:India's Look East policy represents its efforts to cultivate extensive economic and strategic relations with the nations of Southeast Asia in order to bolster its standing as a regional power and a counterweight to the strategic influence of the People's Republic of China. Initiated in 1991, marked a strategic shift in India’s perspective of the world.
Therefore, we shouldstudyandthink overIndia'slook EastPolicy, including its reasons, process, consequence, outlook and itsinfluenceonChina as well as the countermeasuresof China.