At the 155th GRIPS Forum on 23 July, 2018, His Excellency Mr. Sujan R. Chinoy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Japan, gave a lecture titled “India-Japan Special Strategic & Global Partnership in a Changing World”.

Picture left: GRIPS President Tanaka shook hands with  His Excellency Mr. Sujan R. Chinoy./ Picture right: Professor of GRIPS, Harutaka Takenaka moderated Q&A session after the speech.

abstract:

India and Japan have shared values of Buddhism, democracy and rule of law. Both are committed to an open and inclusive architecture to promote peace and development in the Indo-Pacific region. The Annual Summits between Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Abe have completely transformed our ties, both economic and strategic. It is a partnership of great substance and purpose, and a cornerstone of India’ s Act East Policy. With India’ s rise as the world’ s fastest-growing large economy, opportunities abound for Japanese investments in India in infrastructure such as high-speed rail, manufacturing, services and logistics. Healthcare, disaster risk reduction, food processing and ICT are new areas of focus, backed by strong people-to-people ties.

Speakers’ Profile:

H.E. Sujan R. Chinoy is the Ambassador of India to Japan since December 2015. Earlier, he was Ambassador to Mexico and Belize. A career diplomat since 1981, he specialized in Chinese and served in Indian Missions in Hong Kong, Beijing, New York, Riyadh, Shanghai and Sydney. He anchored national security policy formulation and global strategic and security dialogues for four years at India’ s National Security Council Secretariat.