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Titolo: INDIA/JAPAN:  Abe's Visit Underlines New Strategic Alliance

Risulta un po' penoso e preoccupante il tentativo USA di costituire
una specie di NATO asiatica in funzione anticinese.
Penoso, perché alla fine ciò che conta sono gli interessi concreti
degli attori internazionali, e la Cina è senza dubbio un attore
interessante dal punto di vista economico-finanziario.  Ma lo è anche
per la motivazione addotta come collante della progettata alleanza
Australia-Giappone-India-USA: la forma "democratica" di questi paesi e
il comune affaccio sul Pacifico, come se questi fossero elementi
sufficienti a tenere assieme questa eterogenea alleanza e ad escludere
la Cina.
Ma è anche preoccupante questo tentativo per l'impronta di alleanza
militare, voluta essenzialmente da Giappone e USA, che dovrebbe essere
destinata a cementarla concretamente.
Che l'India abbia interesse a mantenere un rapporto di scambio
militare con gli USA è comprensibile, e i recenti rinnovati impegni
statunitensi a supportare l'incremento qualitativo dei programmi
militari indiani ne sono una conferma, e dunque si capisce
l'accondiscendenza a partecipare a manovre quadrilaterali congiunte
nel Pacifico, ma questo, dal punto di vista indiano, potrebbe essere
piuttosto un mezzo per assicurarsi l'armamento necessario a
fronteggiare la minaccia molto più reale e vicina costituita da
Pakistan, paese che peraltro mostra preoccupanti segni di instabilità
e che gode di un analogo supporto degli USA sul fronte degli
armamenti.
Che gli Stati Uniti tentino di contrastare la formazione di
aggregazioni politico-economico che potrebbero diventare suoi temibili
concorrenti sul piano dell'influenza geostrategica è comprensibile;
che tentino di farlo utilizzando lo strumento delle alleanze
strategiche militari non è certo condivisibile sul piano della
sicurezza planetaria.
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Analysis by Praful Bidwai
Credit:PIB-India
Abe addresses Indian Parliament.
NEW DELHI, Aug 24 (IPS) - With Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's
just-concluded maiden visit to India, New Delhi has taken one more
step towards fashioning a new posture towards East Asia, seeking to
expand its political influence in the region and strengthen economic
ties with it.
At the centre of this is India's efforts to build a strategic
relationship with Japan, which was launched during former Prime
Minister Yushiro Mori's visit to India in 2000. Then, the two
governments announced a "Global Partnership between Japan and India in
the 21st Century".
Besides greater cooperation in the economic field, including
information technology, they have been trying to expand bilateral
exchanges in political-military areas.
India and Japan, along with Germany and Brazil, made a coordinated but
abortive bid in 2005 to acquire permanent seats on the United Nations
Security Council.
Abe, a self-confessed Indophile, was given the red carpet treatment
when he landed in India on Tuesday for the three-day visit. He was
invited to address a special session of Parliament -- a ceremonial
privilege not extended even to U.S. President George W. Bush during
his visit here last year. Abe called for the creation of an "arc of
freedom and prosperity" along the outer rim of Eurasia.
Ironically, Abe met his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh in what has
been called "a summit between two injured or embattled Prime
Ministers".
Both Abe and Singh are facing stiff domestic political opposition.
Abe's Liberal Democratic Party recently lost its majority in Japan's
upper house of Parliament, and his defence minister had to resign last
month because of his remarks about the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. The bombing, he had said, "could not be helped".
Singh's ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is embroiled in a
serious tussle over the U.S.-India nuclear cooperation deal with the
Communist Left, whose support is vital for its survival.
The Left opposes the deal and demands the suspension of further talks
on it at the International Atomic Energy Agency and the 45-nation
Nuclear Suppliers Group, which must approve it before it comes into
effect.
However, none of this prevented the two Prime Ministers from
committing themselves to building a stronger "strategic partnership".
Japan also agreed to invest in big-ticket infrastructure projects in
several parts of India, including West Bengal.
The U.S., India, Japan and Australia are trying to set up an important
new initiative in the form of a "quadrilateral" grouping, termed by
its critics as the core of "an Asian NATO". In May, their foreign
ministers met on the sidelines of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Manila
to discuss security issues in Asia.
The same month, India participated in military exercises with the U.S.
and Japan, not far from China's eastern coast.
The "quadrilateral" consultations and exercises attracted strong
protests from China. Beijing fears that the U.S. is fashioning a
"China containment" strategy involving India, Japan and Australia.
China issued demarches (formal diplomatic communications) to each of
the four states. To reassure China that India's participation was not
a sign of hostility to it, New Delhi also conducted a token one-day
exercise with the Chinese Navy. That has not fully assured China.
The four, along with Singapore, are now scheduled to hold large-scale
but controversial naval exercises off India's East Coast early next
month. These will involve 20 warships, including two US aircraft
carriers and a nuclear submarine, as well as Japanese destroyers.
"It is undeniable that India and Japan both want to contain China's
growing influence in Asia through their emerging strategic
partnership," says Lalima Verma, of the Centre for East Asian Studies
at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here. "They are worried that
Chinese power will remain ineffectively challenged unless they join
hands."
Undergirding the "partnership" are India's growing strategic ambitions
and its strategic alliance with the U.S. and Japan's steady
militarisation.
India is being recruited by Washington as an anchor in the U.S.-
dominated security architecture it plans for Asia. India has emerged
as one of the world's top three importers of armaments and is believed
to be expanding its nuclear arsenal considerably. Japan has been
steadily building up its offensive strategic capabilities. Last year,
it reconstituted its defence agency into a full-fledged ministry.
"There has been a generational shift in Japan's political leadership
in recent years," argues Brij Tankha, a Japanese studies scholar from
Delhi University. "The new leaders no longer feel particularly
embarrassed by Japan's past militarist role. That is why Japanese
prime ministers have been regularly visiting the Yasukuni shrine,
which is a memorial to Japan's war heroes."
Abe has not visited the shrine since he became Prime Minister. But
while in Kolkata, he made it a point to meet Prosanto Pal, the son of
Judge Radhabinod Pal, the sole member of the International Military
Tribunal for the Far East to dissent from the verdict in the Tokyo War
Crimes Trial of 1946-48.
During his India visit, Abe stopped short of committing himself to
unconditionally supporting India's bid to get its nuclear deal with
the US approved in the Nuclear Suppliers' Group.
In response to Singh's appeal for support, Abe said he understood the
deal's great importance in meeting India's energy needs, but added
that Japan would have to take a nuanced stand on the issue after
studying the details as Japan is the world's sole victim of nuclear
weapons.
However, Indian officials expect Japan not to obstruct approval for
the deal in the NSG unless other member-states object to it.
A highlight of Abe's visit was Japan's promise to invest in two large
projects: a 90 billion dollar, 1,500 km-long 'Industrial Corridor
connecting the national capital with the western port city of Mumbai.
The corridor will have nine investment regions, three ports and six
airports; and will be serviced by a dedicated railway freight corridor
between Delhi and the eastern port city of Kolkata. Japan has
committed a little over three billion dollars for the first stage.
Japan, India's biggest aid donor, is also set to become a major
industrial investor. "Japan is keen to expand its industrial presence
through large corporations to match big South Korean investments, such
as a 13 billion dollar steel project in Orissa, and the high profile
LG and Samsung groups," says Verma. "That is why Abe came with 100 top
corporate executives."
Japan is also keen to triple its trade with India from the current
level of 6.5 billion within three years. It is anxious to compete with
China, which has a 20 billion dollar trade volume with India.
"No less important," adds Verma, "is Japan's interest in promoting
educational and people-to-people exchanges." As many as 12 university
vice-chancellors accompanied the Japanese Prime Minister. Some of
these universities will set up joint programmes with the Indian
Institutes of Technology and Institutes of Management, as well as
institutions such as JNU and Delhi University.
Japan and India have decided to hold a summit meeting every year and
complete negotiations a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
by the end of 2007. India hopes to attract at least five billion
dollars in Japanese investment over the next five years, or double the
volume received over the past 15 years.
However, the driving force in the emerging Japan-India relationship is
more likely to be strategic and political rather than economic.
(END/2007)
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armamenti.
Q.E.D.
E senza che questo lo faccia diventare un paese di una fantasiosa "NATO
asiatica" :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

 asiatica" :)
Che peraltro esiste già e si chiama SEATO, così come nel Pacifico (su
cui l'India non si affaccia) esiste l'ANZUS.
MG


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esisteVA. Nel senso che non è certo una nuova idea quella di costruire
delle alleanze a guida USA nell'area.
MG

 una specie di NATO asiatica in funzione anticinese.
E' il mondo multipolare, baby.
Comunque anche in questo caso non hai capito un cazzo. Quando una potenza 
cresce, le potenze circostanti se ne preoccupano. Se cresce moltissimo, e ha 
(come naturale) pretese egemoniche, tende a mettere tutte le potenze circostanti 
d'accordo.
E' la geopolitica, baby.
A parte questa ovvietà, credo che gli osservatori un po' più sofisticati 
potranno notare come il Giappone stia, non si può dire per ora con quale 
successo, cercando di costruire qualcosa insieme ad altri Grandi Paesi Isolati e 
indipendenti dalla zolla culturale circostante.
E' il caso, oltra al Giappone, di Israele, della Turchia, dell'Australia. E 
forse dell'India, una specie di continente solitario.
Vedremo, è una cosa interessante, che potrebbe dare sbocchi strategici a paesi 
le cui prospettive sembrano a prima vista un po' imballate.
Tb
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MILES GLORIOSUS wrote:
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Sei crudele con quel povero pirla di Persio.
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 le cui prospettive sembrano a prima vista un po' imballate.
Ti comunico, comunque, che hai trascurato un po' di "cosette
significative" dell'articolo e del commento.
Tra le altre, ma non è l'unica, l'adozione spregiudicata e massiccia
del metodo delle alleanze *militari* come strumento di pressione e di
aggregazione delle alleanze.
Una cosetta che sembra il presupposto per ricondurre l'ambito del
confronto tra le nazioni alla guerra.

 confronto tra le nazioni alla guerra.
ROTFLISSIMO.
Persio, sei ufficialmente cretino.
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 L'India si affaccia .... sull'Oceano Indiano :)
Ehm, vero.
Però l'acqua è la stessa, dai.
CUT

 d'accordo.
e ad accordarsi con una potenza dalle pretese egemoniche planetarie
come gli USA?  Davvero geniali....

 Però l'acqua è la stessa, dai.
E il Mediterraneo e' l'Oceano Atlantico.  Tanto l'acqua e' la stessa :)
*ROTFL*
Vedo che hai evitato di rispondere delle tue altre sciocchezze :)
-Stefano

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Quelle altre erano le *tue* sciocchezze...

Quelle altre erano le *tue* sciocchezze...
Quindi non hai problemi a mostrare le fantasiose "manovre
quadrilaterali", giusto per fare un esempio caro *FESSO ANTICONFORMISTA*
di un Persio? :)
*ROTFL*
-Stefano

 
adesso israele è paragonabile a colossi come turchia e india (peraltro 
assolutamente non isolata nel contesto asiatico). Il giappone tende ad 
avere buone relazioni con tutti, non a caso i militari cinesi sono in 
visita in giappone in sti giorni, cretino

cretino
Era risaputo che sei un cretino :)
-Stefano