{"id":1568,"date":"2026-08-09T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/do-you-agree-that-the-growing-assertiveness-of-china-is-leading-upsc-psir-2013-4601\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:35","slug":"do-you-agree-that-the-growing-assertiveness-of-china-is-leading-upsc-psir-2013-4601","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/do-you-agree-that-the-growing-assertiveness-of-china-is-leading-upsc-psir-2013-4601\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you agree that the growing assertiveness of China is leading to multilayered Indo-Japan relations? Comment."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 ties predate China&#039;s rise &gt; 1952 treaty, yen loans 1958, CEPA, high-speed rail &gt; assertiveness changed pace and range, not origin k2 \u201cmultilayered\u201d must be shown, not asserted \u2014 layers exist \u2014 but unequal in strength<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">same pressure on both: Senkakus + LAC + nine-dash line rejected 2016 &gt; Panda: Asia uneasy, Beijing reads friendship as ganging up \u2014 layered response: 2+2, Malabar, Quad, Act East Forum-FOIP ~ 2025 security declaration replaces 2008 ~ UNICORN co- development 2026 \u2014 coercion adds newest layer: Takaichi in Diet, Nov 2025 = travel advisory + seafood ban &gt; July 2026 economic-security declaration: semiconductors, critical minerals, clean energy &gt; no dependence on one country<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">depth lags breadth &gt; Jain: economic ties the weak link, 10 trillion yen slow ~ Menon: strategic autonomy caps Tokyo&#039;s balancing hopes \u2014 India still engages Beijing while Japan\u2019s China ties worsen<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 assertiveness explains breadth better than depth rz the layers are real but uneven &gt; agreement with the question, not endorsement of its implied depth<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[46],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[85],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1568","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-46","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-india-and-the-global-centres-of-power","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1568\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}