New Delhi: India and Japan on Thursday sealed a pact to bolster their maritime security ties and vowed to synergise bilateral military cooperation to work towards a free and open Indo-Pacific, an assertion that came amid China's increasing military muscle-flexing in the region.
In their talks, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi expressed their strong opposition to any unilateral actions that impede freedom and safety of navigation and overflight, as well as attempts to change the status-quo by force or coercion.
