Nowadays, India and China are in competition to influence the ASEAN region. India has attained some budget to provide to neighboring ASEAN countries for developing infrastructure projects, while China too has also given out money to the CLMV country group for developing infrastructure. There are many projects in which they seem to overlap however continue to lack cooperation between themselves.
Therefore, I would suggest that ASEAN should be a middle agent in building the relationship between the three parties including ASEAN, India and China. Specifically, the cooperation should be extended in developing railway system in ASEAN. India has a project of Delhi-Hanoi Railway Link, while China has a plan of building up Pan-Asia Railways, which consists of three railway routes connecting the Kunming in China with Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. ASEAN and the two countries shall cooperate in establishing the railway links in this region. This is so to standardize the railway system and to quickly get the projects running with enough supporting budgets and without any overlap.