{"id":35150,"date":"2018-10-31T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35150"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:28:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:58:16","slug":"the-case-for-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-case-for-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"The case for alliance:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/the-case-for-alliance\/\">The case for alliance<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rise of China and uncertainty over America\u2019s role in Asia has brought Japan and India closer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan has come closest to being India\u2019s natural ally in Asia<\/li>\n<li>The emerging Asian dynamic, suggests that Delhi and Tokyo must necessarily draw closer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Growing concerns:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rapid rise of China and the other is the growing uncertainty over America\u2019s future role in Asia.<\/li>\n<li>Rising China has dethroned Japan as the number one economic power in Asia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reasons for rapid rise of China:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly 40 years of accelerated economic growth has helped China inch closer to the aggregate GDP of the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Military modernisation over the past decades has given Beijing levers to contest US military dominance over Asia.<\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s GDP is now five times larger than that of India. Beijing outspends Delhi and Tokyo on defence by more than four times.<\/li>\n<li>According to the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies, China\u2019s defence budget ($216 billion) is more than twice that of India ($56 billion) and Japan ($46 billion) put together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India and Japan Current developments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prime Minister Narendra Modi \u00a0had put Japan at the very top of his foreign policy agenda.<\/li>\n<li>Modi continuously nudged the Indian establishment to think more strategically about cooperation with Japan \u2014 from high speed railway development to the modernisation of transport infrastructure in the Northeast.<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo and Delhi have expanded their maritime security cooperation, agreed to work together in promoting connectivity and infrastructure in third countries in India\u2019s neighbourhood. They are pooling their resources \u2014 financial and human \u2014 to develop the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor.<\/li>\n<li>Today, Japan has come closest to being India\u2019s natural ally in Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan was the only nation to extend public support to India during the Doklam confrontation with China<\/li>\n<li>Two decades ago, in the aftermath of India\u2019s nuclear tests, Tokyo was at the forefront of the international condemnation and the imposition of collective economic measures against Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>Way ahead:<\/li>\n<li>Delhi and Tokyo have come a long way since the tensions over India\u2019s nuclear tests in the late 1990s. But there is much distance to go before they can showcase at least an alliance-like relationship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case for alliance: Context: Rise of China and uncertainty over America\u2019s role in Asia has brought Japan and India closer Introduction: Japan has come closest to being India\u2019s natural ally in Asia The emerging Asian dynamic, suggests that Delhi and Tokyo must necessarily draw closer. Growing concerns: Rapid rise of China and the other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-case-for-alliance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The case for alliance:\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-35150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704854766},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35150","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=35150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}