{"id":197313,"date":"2022-07-26T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T06:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=197313"},"modified":"2022-07-26T11:57:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T06:27:20","slug":"its-time-india-and-japan-rethink-their-nuclear-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/its-time-india-and-japan-rethink-their-nuclear-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time India and Japan rethink their nuclear policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: This post is created based on the article \u201cIt\u2019s time India and Japan rethink their nuclear policy<\/strong>\u201d published on The Hindu<\/strong> on 26th<\/sup> July 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS Paper 2 \u2013 Foreign policy of India \u2013 India\u2019s nuclear policy<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: A recent report on Asian nuclear transitions by Ashley Tellis of the Carnegie Endowment underlined the shared security challenges for Delhi and Tokyo. The shared challenge is increasing Chinese military power and the rapid modernisation of Beijing\u2019s nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n

Until now, both Japan and India were relaxed by the fact that China\u2019s modest nuclear arsenal\u00a0is not an existential threat. But much has changed now.<\/p>\n

What are the factors emphasising shared concerns of India and Japan with regard to China?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

First,<\/strong> China\u2019s modernisation and expansion of nuclear arsenal. As per some estimates, China\u2019s arsenal could grow from about 350 now to 1,000 warheads by 2030.<\/p>\n

Second,<\/strong> China\u2019s muscular approach to its territorial disputes with other countries. It has adopted the strategies of salami slicing and coercive diplomacy at frontiers with Japan and India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Salami slicing <\/strong>is a divide-and-conquer tactic used to dominate opposition. Such operations are too small that they do not give an excuse for war or attract international criticism. However, they give the aggressor country a strategic advantage in the long term.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Third,<\/strong> Russian invasion of Ukraine has made it clear that if a nuclear power invade another country, international powers feel reluctant to interfere. It is due to the fear of facing nuclear war or attack.<\/p>\n

Fourth,<\/strong> given the fact that China is closing the economic and military gap with US, credibility of the US-extended deterrence for Japan is under question.<\/p>\n

Fifth, <\/strong>India\u2019s policy of minimum deterrence and a doctrine of no-first-use of nuclear weapons are not sufficient against the China\u2019s aggressive policies.<\/p>\n

Sixth,<\/strong> both India and Japan are not well positioned to be champions\u00a0for the global abolition of nuclear weapons. While\u00a0India never agreed to give up its own nuclear weapons, Japan despite being the victim of nuclear weapons, is under US nuclear umbrella.<\/p>\n

What should be done?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

India needs to reconsider its India\u2019s minimum deterrence posture.<\/p>\n

US needs to\u00a0revise its confronting attitudes towards India\u2019s nuclear weapons programme. Instead US should facilitate India\u2019s development of more sophisticated nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n

\u201cINFRUS\u201d agreement<\/strong> \u2014 between India, France and the US could help India build an underwater deterrence based on ballistic missile carrying submarines (SSBN) as well as nuclear attack submarines (SSN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: This post is created based on the article \u201cIt\u2019s time India and Japan rethink their nuclear policy\u201d published on The Hindu on 26th July 2022. Syllabus: GS Paper 2 \u2013 Foreign policy of India \u2013 India\u2019s nuclear policy News: A recent report on Asian nuclear transitions by Ashley Tellis of the Carnegie Endowment underlined… Continue reading It\u2019s time India and Japan rethink their nuclear policy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-197313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}