Japan-India Summit: Closer Together, Farther from Trump’s America
Almost 120 memoranda in one visit. Mark S. Cogan reads Tokyo and Delhi's sudden closeness as two capitals hedging — against Washington's unpredictability, and against the Quad's fading promise.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s visit to India can be seen as a shift from diplomatic optics to tangible security building, but it also signifies something else. They’ve moved markedly closer together, but also slightly farther away from Trump and the United States. Takaichi arrived in New Delhi with a narrow list of things to do: tap India as a key partner in Japan’s economic security strategy as supply chains fragment and US commitment looks shaky. Second, she moved on a declaration of economic security, a joint statement on energy resilience, anchored in projects on critical…
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