Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will travel to India in the coming days, where he will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.
Kishida lands in New Delhi on Sunday and is expected to remain in India until Wednesday, while a bilateral summit he is due to attend with Modi is scheduled for Monday.
The Japanese Prime Minister is even expected to announce from New Delhi on Monday a new plan for an open and free Indo-Pacific region, in which India and Japan will strengthen their cooperation as a counterweight to China’s growing influence in the region.
It is recalled that Modi was also in Tokyo last September, while Kishida visited India exactly one year ago, in March 2022.
Japan and India participate in the Quad Security Dialogue along with Australia and the US.
Kishida and Modi are expected to discuss issues such as China’s “increasingly assertive” actions in Asia and the Indo-Pacific region during their upcoming meeting.
Recall that in the new National Security Strategy, which Tokyo unveiled last December, China is presented as “the greatest strategic challenge that Japan has ever faced.”
According to Japan Times, Reuters
Source: Kathimerini
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