"The different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea."
In 2007, then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered what would later be remembered as an epoch-making foreign policy speech, titled "Confluence of the Two Seas," in the Indian Parliament. Beginning his widely acclaimed speech with a quote from the Indian spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), Abe went on to deliver a profound insight: "The Pacific and the Indian Oceans are now bringing about a dynamic coupling as seas of freedom and of prosperity."
