China's increasing assertiveness makes United States, India and Japan to meet and discuss China
Special Correspondent
Dec. 4, 2011

China's increasing assertiveness has made it necessary for Washington for the first time to host a trilateral official-level dialogue with Japanese, Indian and US diplomats on December 19 to build convergence over regional maritime security.

While Japan is a treaty ally of the US, India is being approached by South-East Asian countries and even Australia for trilateral initiatives in the face of Beijing's claims over the oil-rich South China Sea at the East Asia Summit in Bali last month.

India is also an active member of SCO (Sanghai Cooperation Treaty) which makes China a, Russia and India converge against NATO and other western powers and their allies.

The dialogue will ramp up to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's visit to India on December 28. While major bilateral initiatives like an agriculture corridor and trans-Asian Buddhist circuit are in the pipeline during Noda's visit, New Delhi and Tokyo will for the first time explore the possibility of joint research in the defence sector. Driven by Tokyo and finalised during then foreign secretary Nirupama Rao's visit to Japan in April 2010, the dialogue is also part of New Delhi's effort to go beyond the stated Look East policy and engage North Asia as well.

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