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Do you agree that the growing assertiveness of China is leading to multilayered Indo-Japan relations? Comment.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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Since 2010 China has pressed both states on different fronts. Japan faced the Senkaku trawler collision and rare-earth curbs (2010), the nationalisation crisis (2012) and a unilateral air defence identification zone (2013); India faced Doklam (2017) and Galwan (2020). I largely agree that this pressure produced a multilayered partnership, but China accelerated a convergence it…

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  • Why "China alone" overstates the case
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