The significance of Mr Abe

A little over five years ago, India’s moribund and sometimes distant relations with Japan got a dramatic boost when that country’s visiting prime minister, Shinzo Abe, told India’s Parliament that he looked forward to a “confluence of the two seas” (the Indian and Pacific oceans), and a “broader Asia” that would create “an arc of freedom and prosperity”. Mr Abe declared that Japan had “rediscovered India as a partner that shares the same values and interests”.

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