After demonstrating decisive leadership in shaping Indo-Pacific’s geoeconomic architecture, Tokyo is now making a compelling case on security. Months of intense domestic debate on shoring up deterrence has culminated into the first revision of the NSS, alongside the unveiling of National Defence Strategy and the Defense Build-up Program. While the domestic conversation between the Liberal Democratic Party and its junior …
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 can be seen as an epilogue to the Cold War, with Russian President Vladimir Putin seeking to renew the country’s former glory by reasserting its Soviet-era sphere of influence. Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio made this clear by noting in a keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue this past summer his “strong …
The Indo-Pacific is front and centre in this week’s high-powered diplomacy, whether it be aligning the coordinates on geo-economics at the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework ’s ministerial meeting in Los Angeles, geo-strategy at the Quad meeting in Delhi or a series of India-Japan ministerial dialogues in Tokyo. Today, the primacy of Delhi in the Japanese security outlook is firmly entrenched, as …
