Blossoming friendship between India and Japan

Tuesday 15th January 2019 08:21 EST
 

Since BJP came to power under the astute guardianship of PM Narendra Modi, India’s prestige and respect has gone up in leaps and bounds throughout the world but in particular in Western world as well as among Islamic nations of Middle East and Central Asia which were alien nations under Congress misrule! PM Modi’s notable achievement is the establishment of close, friendly relations between Modi and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe who recently visited India at the invitation of PM Modi. 

This meeting of two PMs with synchronized minds, who share common interest in trade, technology and international relations, was indeed a blessing beyond belief for India, Japan promising to build and finance “Bullet Train” between Mumbai and Gujarat capital Ahmedabad. Japan leads the world in bullet train technology, train speeding at 200 mph that will help India to modernize Indian railways mainly built during British Raj to subjugate and rule India with iron fist! Japan is also eager to transfer its industrial, manufacturing base from China to India, mainly due to ever-rising Chinese labour cost as well as breakdown in Sino-Japanese trust and friendship. This will help Modi to implement his “Make it in India” policy, as well as provide jobs to ever rising Indian population with well-educated and hard-working younger generation.      

Although recent closeness between two flourishing democratic nations have attracted all the attention, all the headlines, it was under the premiership of first BJP starlet, PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee under whose leadership foundation of this close and mutually beneficial “Global Partnership”  were laid when then Japanese PM Yoshiro Mori visited India in August 2000. Atalji was a wise and visionary PM who made BJP popular at national level.

The recent events, the rise of Chinese dominance, brutality and bullying of “South Pacific Rim Nations” that include China’s once close and loyal ally Vietnam, as well as neighbouring nations like Philippines, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia and Japan itself has raised a cloud of fear and mistrust of China. The final nail in the coffin of Chinese trust and intention were laid bare when China started building artificial islands in the shallow, international waters in South China Sea, ignoring Hague judgement against China, turning them into military outpost and claiming sovereignty of the entire South China Sea, threatening lifeline of Japan for whom South China Sea is an important sea route for it exports to the world. China has similar aspiration to build such artificial islands in Bay of Bengal, in Andaman Sea littered with some 300 islands, mainly tiny uninhabited islets. So India beware!      

Bhupendra M. Gandhi  

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