The author has provided excellent and well-thought views on having and Indo-Japan axis. I agree with the author that India and China can be tenuous neighbours at best - tolerating each other because of geography, but nothing more. The emotional baggage of "Panchsheel" and similar "big brother neighbor" needs to be relegated to the garbage bin of history.
A progressing India needs to ensure that the fruits of labour gained over the last decade are not summarily frittered due to ineptitude and lack of strategic thinking. A nation of one billion people needs to now think of the future and determine and define its long term strategy to ensure that India stays on the path to become one of the power players in the world.
India needs to reach out to the future power players who are her friends, distant though they may be, and ensure that there is a strategic and binding association to keep her enemies in check. The age-old dictum still applies - an enemy's enemy is your friend.
