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    Detailed perspectives on developments in South Asia​​

    151 : Life at 60 in Japan-India Relationship

    P. S. Suryanarayana, Editor (Current Affairs) at the ISAS

    14 January 2012

    The newly maturing bonhomie between India and Japan is patently designed to create a non-military level-playing field in facing a competitive China in the integral geopolitical space of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This is evident in the spirit of the latest understanding between Japan and India on rare earths and civil nuclear cooperation. This can also be seen as a factor driving the new US-Japan-India trilateral dialogue.