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Closer bilateral relations between Tokyo and New Delhi are in many ways predicated by the emergence of Beijing as a determinant in strategic and economic terms for the Asia-Pacific region. That a calibration between the two sides was lacking for many decades is the result of strategic inertia with Tokyo anchoring its weltanschauung to a Washington led world order reflected in the symmetry Tokyo achieved by becoming a cog in every initiative created by Washington.
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