Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe for Indo-Japan naval ties with US
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury
New Delhi, September 21, 2011
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday said Indian and Chinese navies should join hands with the US to safeguard commercial sea lanes and ensure a stable Asia.
He was reacting to a Chinese warning to India to wash its hands off oil exploration in the South China Sea.
On a day when Japan also joined the South China Sea territorial debate by holding talks with the Philippines, Abe noted that India could assure Vietnam, South Korea and the US with its proposed threeaircraft carrier that could keep Asian sea lines stable.
Abe said while the US had been providing stability to the sea lanes of commerce since 1950s, it was now "weaker". "In the meantime, let India and Japan work together with the Americans so that there is no strategic void," Abe said in a seminar 'Two democracies meet at sea: For a better and safer Asia' in New Delhi.
In an indirect reference to matching Chinese assertiveness in the East and the South East Asian regions, Abe said, "... As natural allies, India and Japan must work harder to keep our great maritime asset open, free and safe... Please let your (India's) navy meet the Japanese naval force more often at sea".
Japan, who participated in a series of naval exercises with India off the Malabar coast in 2007, wants to take part in more such exercises in future.
Source: India Today,
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/former-japanese-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-for-indo-japan-naval-ties-with-us/1/152111.html
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday said Indian and Chinese navies should join hands with the US to safeguard commercial sea lanes and ensure a stable Asia.
He was reacting to a Chinese warning to India to wash its hands off oil exploration in the South China Sea.
On a day when Japan also joined the South China Sea territorial debate by holding talks with the Philippines, Abe noted that India could assure Vietnam, South Korea and the US with its proposed threeaircraft carrier that could keep Asian sea lines stable.
Abe said while the US had been providing stability to the sea lanes of commerce since 1950s, it was now "weaker". "In the meantime, let India and Japan work together with the Americans so that there is no strategic void," Abe said in a seminar 'Two democracies meet at sea: For a better and safer Asia' in New Delhi.
In an indirect reference to matching Chinese assertiveness in the East and the South East Asian regions, Abe said, "... As natural allies, India and Japan must work harder to keep our great maritime asset open, free and safe... Please let your (India's) navy meet the Japanese naval force more often at sea".
Japan, who participated in a series of naval exercises with India off the Malabar coast in 2007, wants to take part in more such exercises in future.
Source: India Today,
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/former-japanese-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-for-indo-japan-naval-ties-with-us/1/152111.html
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