Abstract
Asia and Africa are connected by the Indian Ocean and the two regions provide a renewed opportunity for partnership for sustainable development. As developing regions, both continents are committed to promoting strong, balanced, sustainable, and inclusive growth. The conceptualization of AAGC is the convergence of the Free, Open and Inclusive Indo-Pacific (FOIP) and Act East Policy of India. AAGC foresees Africa’s integration with Asia, in which South Asia, West Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Oceania play an important part. AAGC will be instrumental in bringing people, goods, services, capital, and institutions closer together, and in realizing the objective of Asia Africa partnership for sustainable and innovative development. AAGC brings forth the development experience of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia closer to Africa and creates economic connectivity and cooperation between two megaregions. In a digital world where the future of work is changing fast, and distances have changed meaning in Industry 4.0, AAGC’s contribution in bringing Asia and Africa closer through trade and economic cooperation and in developing South-South value chains are important and urgent. Importantly, AAGC will set a paradigm of connectivity in Indo-Pacific that is non-hegemonic, consensus-based, and merged into the development priorities of the countries and regions. AAGC will create connectivity in the Indo-Pacific, and serve to connect Asia, Africa, and Europe. Importance of resource mobilization and sustainable connectivity in AAGC will be an important part of this chapter. AAGC as a foreign policy tool for India and ASEAN will also be covered to emphasize the value of AAGC among different connectivity plans in the Indo-Pacific.
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