Upping the Ante

Japanese Chief of Staff of the JASDF, Izutsu Shunji, put it plainly, "Japan and India are in a special strategic global partnership relationship." When viewed alongside enhanced US support towards Japan's military wherewithal, the signing of Japan's RAA with UK (earlier signed with Australia) which allows both countries to deploy forces on each other's soil, the visible presence of Indian fighter planes in Japan is loaded with portents of immense concern as far as Beijing is concerned