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What are the main drivers of India-Japan Strategic and Global Partnership?

  • UPSC 2022
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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India and Japan opened diplomatic relations in 1952, but strategic content came only when Manmohan Singh and Shinzo Abe named their ties a Strategic and Global Partnership in 2006; Narendra Modi and Abe raised it to a Special Strategic and Global Partnership in September 2014. Its drivers work in layers: China's rise, maritime geography, economic…

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  • 1. The strategic driver: a shared China problem
  • 2. The maritime-geographic driver
  • 3. Economic complementarity and economic security
  • 4. Normative and diplomatic drivers
  • Limits that temper the drivers
  • Conclusion
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