PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · India & the Global Centres of Power — Part 2
What are the notable features of the recently concluded pact or the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) between India and Japan? How is it likely to address the security concerns of India?
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
R1 signed 9 Sept 2020, in force July 2021 → the name says supplies and services, not bases > reach without obligation R2 India’s logistics network after LEMOA → Japan added as an enabling framework, not an alliance ~ worth and limit in the same clause
Body flow
permissive design: either may ask, other may provide > fifteen categories, food to port services — activities: exercises, UN peacekeeping, relief, evacuation, port visits — weapons and ammunition excluded — ten years, auto-renewal — distance converted into range — Djibouti / Andamans / Malacca > Malabar, JIMEX easier to sustain — joins the LEMOA network
Counter-view
Basrur and Kutty: autonomy preferred to alliance > so no obligation in a crisis > no reciprocal access agreement, unlike Australia and the Philippines > Lidarev: not a full ally ~ Taiwan contingency, access becomes exposure
Conclusion routes
Rr! cost of presence falls, cost of commitment avoided kz date maritime reach gained, land border with China untouched
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
