The Adage goes thus "Birds of a feather flock together", this veritable scenario is emerging in the South-Asian political arena today. Confronting China's newfound belligerence and undeterred run in the South-Asian landscape of late, has prompted three divergent nation states (India, America & Japan) spread across several thousands of kilometers come together under a Trilateral agreement to counter the mighty Red Dragon's aggressive and assertive military ambitions.
China has been a tenuous thorn and a anathema in India's flesh for several decades, however, unlike Pakistan, China's stance against India is understated and less confrontational. It waves its flashy double edged sword against India only when there are strong imperatives to underline its foreign policy postulations.
Actuated with Russia's new found camaraderie with China, adding its substantial and opportunistic defense relationship, considering a marked maturity in China's own defense industrial growth, and US inevitably playing truant by keeping itself busy in the middle-east, has held India in much incertitude and trepidation. India found the need to forge an alliance to bring a semblance of equitable parity in the balance of power structure. Such an alignment is thought to bring stability to the Asia-Pacific region, if and when approached, Australia can also pitch in as an ample collateral deterrence, since they also view China as a potential threat to its interests. Chinese posturing around its maritime limits and beyond stems from its pursuance to enhance its strategic and economic stakes in the region rich in hydrocarbons. Vietnam is crucially impacted by Chinese military aggression in the South China Sea maritime expanse, other nations around the region are also feeling the heat who have several territorial disputes with China.
Vietnam is placed in a crucial Geo strategic crux and is a pivotal state in the South China Sea region, but it stands between China and its newly acquired military pugnacity. Coupled with China's phenomenal economic and sustained military growth over the years and its persistent intentions to dominate the vast strategic maritime expanse has made it exigent for India and Japan to shoulder their collective responsibilities to act as a counter balancing force to effect a safe and peaceful security environment in Asia. India's newly aggressive foreign policy shift under the new government and Japan reposing a refurbished confidence in India's power play is the perfect foil to check China's resolute expansive ("imperialist") designs.
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