Japan-China dispute: India should follow middle path

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India, Japan focus on expanding defence cooperation - Livemint

India, Japan focus on expanding defence cooperation

The India-Japan talks come against the backdrop of Tokyo and Beijing being embroiled in an increasingly bitter territorial dispute over an East China Sea archipelago, called the Senkakus in Japan and Diaoyu islands in China, which Japan nationalized in mid-September.
India over the weekend observed the fiftieth anniversary of a bruising war with China in 1962 that has resulted in ties being mired in suspicion and a lingering border dispute.

The potential for further expanding India-Japan defence and security partnership got a fillip last year when Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda lifted a longstanding national ban on arms exports. Under the new guidelines announced in Tokyo in December—just before a visit to India—Japan can sell weapons and military equipment for use in peace-keeping and peace-building operations. Japanese can also now jointly develop weapons systems and military technology with selected partner nations.
Unfortunately, if push comes to shove, it is unlikely India and Japan would back each other. If the Congress Party is willing to push a soft line even after soldiers get beheaded, could you imagine them supporting action over a few rocks in the East China Sea?
 
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Unfortunately, if push comes to shove, it is unlikely India and Japan would back each other. If the Congress Party is willing to push a soft line even after soldiers get beheaded, could you imagine them supporting action over a few rocks in the East China Sea?
India has always fulfilled it's pacts when Israel-hezbollah war broke out Indian troops
were in Israel(under UN flag), even with congress parties votebank politics.
 

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Japan-China dispute: India should follow middle path The main problem I can see with India following the middle road is it might be Japan, USA following the middle road when it is Indians Ox that is getting gored. No one owes or is olbigated to India any more or less then India obligates itself to some one else.
 

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India has always fulfilled it's pacts when Israel-hezbollah war broke out Indian troops
were in Israel(under UN flag), even with congress parties votebank politics.
That's not a defense pact, though. That's an agreement to import weapons...
 

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Japan-China dispute: India should follow middle path The main problem I can see with India following the middle road is it might be Japan, USA following the middle road when it is Indians Ox that is getting gored. No one owes or is olbigated to India any more or less then India obligates itself to some one else.
The US points two thousand nuclear warheads at China, shifts eighty percent of its most advanced fighters and bombers (B-2s and F-22s) to cover the Pacific Ocean, holds military exercises with aircraft carriers barely six hundred kilometers off the Chinese coast, and you call that the middle road? Are you out of your mind?
 

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India has always fulfilled it's pacts when Israel-hezbollah war broke out Indian troops
were in Israel(under UN flag), even with congress parties votebank politics.
With UN flag on your head means your troop is commanded by UN not indian gov. So, technically, they were UN troops.
 

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