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Foreign Affairs Outlook for 2022​​   

ASEAN-India Situation and Forecast for 2022 ​ ​

Choi Yoon Jung 

(yjchoi@sejong.org) 

Director of Center for ASEAN and Indian Studies, 

the Sejong Institute​

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English Abstract

In 2022, when the global transformation after COVID-19 is taking place, Korea needs to consider establishing a relationship with ASEAN and India. The RCEP, which will be launched in 2022, will serve as an experimental platform to determine the operation of ASEAN centrality. How to adhere to ASEAN's internal integration and external centrality principles will be the biggest task for the ASEAN community by 2022, along with overcoming COVID-19. Korea can play an important role as a mediator and facilitator in promoting the "ASEAN+Korea+1" trilateral cooperation while maintaining ASEAN's centrality in the new cooperative structure in the Indo-Pacific region. The new government's new southern policy, which will be launched in 2022, should not only deepen bilateral relations with ASEAN and India but also develop into a "Korea's India-Pacific strategy" that can promote cooperation with regional actors..