GUWAHATI: India can overcome geography and rewrite history "if only we get the policies and the economics right", foreign minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday while highlighting how land connectivity through Myanmar and sea connectivity through Bangladesh on a commercial scale could open up "a world all the way to Vietnam and Philippines, from Haiphong to Hazira, and Manila to Mundra".
If this works out, it would "create an east-west lateral with sweeping benefits for the continent", Jaishankar said at the two-day Nadi 3 Asian Confluence River Conclave that started in the Assam capital.
"This will not only build on the partnerships that we have with the Asean countries and Japan, but would actually make a difference to the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework that is now in the making."
