Asia’s democratic security diamond

In the summer of 2007, addressing the central hall of the Indian Parliament as Japan’s prime minister, I spoke of the “Confluence of the Two Seas”—a phrase that I drew from the title of a book written by the Mughal prince Dara Shikoh in 1655—to the applause and stomping approval of the assembled lawmakers. In the five years since then, I have become even more strongly convinced that what I said was correct. Peace, stability, and freedom of navigation in the Pacific Ocean are inseparable from peace, stability, and freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean.

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