How belligerent China, North Korea are pushing India, Japan into a gritty bonhomie
Meeting in times of a rising threat from China, Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe face big challenges in taking a stalled defence relationship forward.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to New Delhi comes at a time of immense geopolitical churn. India and China have just withdrawn after a 70-day faceoff over a disputed plateau in Doklam, Bhutan. The climbdown was preceded by some of the shrillest war rhetoric from Beijing in nearly three decades and some of the most level-headed diplomatic manoeuvring by New Delhi with tacit Japanese support. Tokyo didn't exactly disguise where its sympathies lay-an August 17 statement by the Japanese envoy to New Delhi, Kenji Hiramatsu, urging "all parties
