It has been almost two decades since the late Shinzo Abe stood in India’s parliament and told the assembled legislators that “it is incumbent upon us two democracies, Japan and India, to carry out the pursuit of freedom and prosperity in the region.” Abe defined their task as protecting the freedom of navigation in what he was the first to call the Indo-Pacific. That task has gotten only more urgent as the US withdraws — or, more recently, imposes blockades on crucial straits — and China pushes
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