{"id":35042,"date":"2018-10-31T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35042"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:24:12","slug":"a-time-of-strategic-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-time-of-strategic-partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"A time of strategic partnerships:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/a-time-of-strategic-partnerships\/article19724067.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A time of strategic partnerships<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The article discuss about the importance of strategic partnership in the context of India-Japan relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the importance of strategic partnership with Japan for India?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The India-Japan \u201cSpecial Strategic and Global Partnership\u201d (a designation and status New Delhi accords to no other partner) has reached new heights.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reasons: The rise of China and questions about America\u2019s commitment in Asia have drawn India and Japan into a deepening security-cum-economic relationship.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the basic elements of synergy between India and Japan?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>The India-Japan synergy has following key elements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan is investing heavily in strengthening its critical infrastructure to enhance its economic and potential defence capabilities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simultaneously, the two countries have begun working on a joint infrastructure development and connectivity drive traversing the Indian Ocean, from Myanmar to Sri Lanka to Iran and encompassing the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On defence matters, Japan and India have agreed to establish regular consultations in the \u201c2+2\u201d format of their defence and foreign ministries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japanese investment in the strategically placed Andaman and Nicobar Islands is likely to help New Delhi establish a major security sentinel in the eastern Indian Ocean.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are strategic partnerships? What is its relevance in today\u2019s world?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We live in a world today driven by \u201cstrategic partnerships\u201d. States find themselves in an interdependent system where the traditional power politics doesn\u2019t fit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, every major relationship is characterized by strategic tension such as U.S.-China, Japan-China, India-China is simultaneously one of economic gain. The U.S. and China are each other\u2019s chief trading partners, while China ranks at the top for Japan and India. Besides, India might confront China at Doklam but it also wants Chinese investment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strategic partnerships carry certain characteristic features falling short of alliances. Unlike alliances, they do not demand commitments to a partner\u2019s disputes with other countries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strategic partnership means that both retain the flexibility to continue political engagement and economic cooperation with their common adversary. Second, they avoid \u201centrapment\u201d, or being dragged into a partner\u2019s disputes and potentially into conflict, which happened in the First World War. Third, regular high-level political and military interactions facilitate a collaborative approach to strategic policies over a range of economic and military activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim of major strategic partnerships is to strengthen defences against marginal conflict, convey a determination to stand up to a strategic adversary and, overall, generate a persuasive environment that discourages potential intimidation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Occasionally, as between India and China, a \u201cstrategic partnership\u201d is a way of opening a channel of communication and minimal cooperation intended to stabilise and develop the potential for a d\u00e9tente and conceivably something warmer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Way forward<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s two main strategic partnerships, with the U.S. and Japan, are dovetailing nicely.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For New Delhi, U.S. will remain its chief backer both to enhance India\u2019s conventional defence capabilities and to draw political support in global political institutions, for example in components of the nuclear non-proliferation regime.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan, in the meantime, is becoming its primary collaborator in developing its economic sinews and for building a geostrategic network that offers Indian Ocean states an alternative to dependence on China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Together, the emerging structure of triangular cooperation should give Beijing time to think.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A time of strategic partnerships:\u00a0 Context The article discuss about the importance of strategic partnership in the context of India-Japan relationship. What is the importance of strategic partnership with Japan for India? The India-Japan \u201cSpecial Strategic and Global Partnership\u201d (a designation and status New Delhi accords to no other partner) has reached new heights. Reasons:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-time-of-strategic-partnerships\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A time of strategic partnerships:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704817965},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}