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SIXTEEN YEARS after Japan’s then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gave his seminal speech, “The Confluence of Two Seas”, in the Indian Parliament, his successor, Fumio Kishida, an Abe loyalist, is set to announce a new plan for a “free and open” Indo-Pacific during his India visit next week. Kishida, who will be in India on March 20-21, is set to make the announcement in a speech organised by the Indian Council of World Affairs, an Indian government-funded think-tank. His plan is expected to include the provision of non-military equipment and infrastructure support for countries in the Indo-Pacific region that have...
