PM Modi’s visit to Japan comes at the right moment to recalibrate a relationship long described as “natural” but left underutilised. We must free it from the warm and fuzzy comfort of nostalgia
Aso, who is in Taipei, did not specify China as the aggressor but emphasised the importance for Japan, as a neighbor of Taiwan, and other countries upholding the international order.
Modi also spoke to his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida about the G20 Summit to be hosted by New Delhi later this year. This is Kishida's 2nd India visit as Japan's PM.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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