first time that that many foreign leaders have attended the event being hosted by prime minister narendra modi the day marks the adoption of the indian constitution in one nine hundred fifty daily sixty thousand security personnel were deployed in new delhi for the parade or modis decision to invite leaders from all ten southeast asian nations that make up the ass and group is being seen as a bold move to try to isolate china as part of its act east strategy is hoping to strengthen political and economic ties with southeast asian nations currently india trails behind china in trade with. in the last two years china's trade with southeast asia was more than six times that of india india has just signed a maritime agreement with nations that's in response to recent moves. by china beijing has been giving economic aid for infrastructure development under its one belt one road initiative that aims to create a giant economic zone connecting asia and europe. is the director of the...