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Editor's Note: This paper, published in ISAS Insights, formed the basis of a presentation by Mr Dhruva Jaishankar as a member of the panel on “South Asia: Looking East” at the 11th ISAS International Conference on South Asia. The conference, titled “Contemporary South Asia: Regional Dynamics and Changing Global Politics” was organised by the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), an autonomous research institute at the National University of Singapore, on 3 March 2017. The views are of the author(s). The paper can be found here.