March 15, 2017

"During a recent closed-door seminar endorsed by Washington-based Hudson Institute and New Delhi-based Vivekananda International Foundation, scholars from both countries said cooperation between India, the United States and Japan is necessary to 'face the Chinese assertiveness' in the strategic Indian Ocean and Pacific regions.

Such insinuations are nothing new, except the emphasis that China has taken 'an increasingly hard-line stance' on its territorial disputes in the East China Sea and the South China Sea. In the name of 'strengthening mutual confidence and inter-operability', the three countries conducted the 'Malabar' joint military exercise in Japan last year."

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