Enhancing the India-Japan Partnership for a Stable Indo-Pacific

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has stressed that a “free and open Indo-Pacific” is the pillar of her strategic foreign and security policy. However, the Japanese media has failed to emphasize this statement, or its connection to India, either intentionally or out of ignorance, or out of fear or over-consideration for noisy neighbors. As Takaichi’s mentor, the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe predicted, the Indo-Pacific has become the strategic heart of the twenty-first century, marked by shifting power balances, contested maritime spaces, and growing emphasis on economic security. Within this fluid environment, Japan and India have emerged as two pivotal democracies…

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