April 4, 2023: Important Current Affairs
The visit by the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, to India In March 2023, during which he engaged with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on global and bilateral issues, focused on cooperation between the G-7 and the G-20 (Japan and India hold their presidencies, respectively). Japanese PM unveiled “Japan’s New Plan for a Free and Open Indo Pacific” (FOIP) and
exchanged views about deepening the “Japan- India Special Strategic and Global Partnership” Japan’s FOIP clearly shows that Japan wants to reinforce the idea that it has been the main champion of the
FOIP concept. The New Plan for the FOIP lays stress on the need to uphold the rules based order and respect each other’s
territorial sovereignty. Challenges before the Indo Pacific Japan’s new policy focuses on the numerous challenges facing the Indo-Pacific such as the Ukraine war, food security, and cyber space in addition to issues such as ensuring the freedom of the seas, and connectivity among others. Another challen…
