2014 年11 月，印度新任總理莫迪在緬甸參與東南亞國家協會年會暨東亞高峰會時，喊出印度將不再只是「向東看」，而是要「向東採取以行動為導向的政策」。和90 年代的「東望政策」相比，相隔20餘年，印度國內經濟表現不佳顯然仍是主要驅動改變的原因之一，但「東進」的推動，不僅是牽涉了經濟，顯然還牽涉更深一層的大戰略考量。本文除探討印度在90 年代所實施「東望政策」外，也將進一步瞭解「東進政策」的形成、未來挑戰，以及對台灣的啟示及建議。 Narendra Modi, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), took a landslide victory in the April-May election in 2014 and assumed the Premier position. In the same year, he visited Myanmar, attended the East Asia Summit (EAS) in November. He officially announced that India is not just ‘looking east’ but will soon take the action-oriented policy to reinvigorate New Delhi’s ties with Southeast Asia at the summit. The paper aims to further explore the following questions, firstly, what are the main driving forces, and also achievements as well, to initiate “Look East Policy” (LEP) in 1990s? And the second, why Modi declared his will to promote so called “Act East Policy” (AEP), and what are the differences between LEP and AEP at all? The challenges and prospects of executing AEP will also be analyzed in this section. The last but not the least, since the new administration of Taiwan made up it mind to put forward its “New Southbound Policy (NSP)”, the implications of India’s AEP for Taiwan will be further unfolded.
