"India's Special Relationship With Abe Shinzo" - By CWP Alum Manjari Chatterjee Miller
Abe personally strengthened India’s bilateral relationship with Japan by enticing India, a notoriously reluctant and cautious actor in global politics, to join his vision of the Indo-Pacific.
Shortly after the shocking news of the assassination of Japanese former prime minister, Abe Shinzo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the following day, July 9, would be a day of national mourning in India for the slain leader. The show of respect was an appropriate statement for the loss of Abe, who was a transformative figure in Japan-India relations. Abe strengthened India’s bilateral relationship with Japan, and enticed India, a notoriously reluctant and cautious actor in global politics, to join his vision of the Indo-Pacific—an ideological framework that is now an important bulwark against the rise of China. In the process, Abe also managed to forge friendships with both Modi as well as Modi’s predecessor, Manmohan Singh.
Blog Post by Manjari Chatterjee Miller July 14, 2022 11:41 am (EST)
Manjari Chatterjee Miller is senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is also a research associate in the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. An expert on India, China, South Asia, and rising powers, she is the author of Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power (2021) and Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (2013). Miller is also the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020), a monthly columnist for the Hindustan Times, and a frequent contributor to policy and media outlets in the United States and Asia.
Photo Credit: By Prime Minister's Office, Government of India - Extensive discussions with PM Shinzo Abe on the various ways to make India-Japan ties stronger & more diverse., GODL-India, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51264405
