Kishida in Kantei: What can the Indo-Pacific partners expect from Japan?
September 30, 2021
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Titli Basu’s article ‘Kishida in Kantei: What can the Indo-Pacific partners expect from Japan?’ has been published in Hindustan Times on September 30, 2021.
Charting his road to power, Fumio Kishida played by the LDP rule-book and positioned himself on the right side of the kingmakers amid the murky factional political culture of the ruling party. But that is only half the battle. Measuring up to the burden of expectations will demand deft leadership, bold strategic vision, and intellectual confidence to conceive innovative policies, as Japan navigates the fluid geostrategic and geo-economic matrix in a post-pandemic world, says Dr. Basu.
