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Title:
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India will boost ties with Vietnam and Japan, says top diplomat
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Author:
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Ravi Velloor
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Source:
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The Straits Times
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Date:
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July 12, 2017
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Description:
- India will deepen its strategic ties with Vietnam and Japan as it continues to build on its Act East policy and sheds its status quo instincts for a more activist line that has already seen it come to the humanitarian aid of countries far beyond its shores. That is the message from New Delhi to South-east Asia. Speaking on the theme of India, Asean and changing geopolitics, Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar said yesterday: "Vietnam is a well-established strategic partner and our cooperation across a broad range of economic, developmental and security issues will deepen ever further.
