India and Japan: Emerging Indo-Pacific Security Partnership (Dhruva Jaishankar, RSIS)

India and Japan, motivated primarily by shared concerns about China, have been developing a closer defence partnership defined by regular maritime exercises and high-level political consultations. The upward trajectory in strategic ties since 2006 can be maintained, as long as both countries take certain structural limitations into consideration

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