ASEAN is the cornerstone of India's Act East Policy and its Indo-Pacific vision. Elaborate.

5. Infrastructure projects like Kaladan Multimodal Project and IMT - Indo-Myanmar Thailand highway is a case in point. 6. Can help the cause of China's strategy of deciding supply chain resilience. 7. Counter the singer narrative - China's relations of South China and string of pearls to India. ASEAN's dependence on China - geoying deficit challenges and (2) BEEF fallout of India common areas of competition (3) Textile, BN, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam is India. Thus, ASEAN needs to be seen as the gateway to guide aspiration to become net security provider and free prosperous, open Indo-Pacific.