MODI SARKAR Modi’s Japan visit: Buddha diplomacy at work - by Ashok B Sharma Marketing Buddha has become the cornerstone of the Modi government’s foreign policy in Southeast and East Asia. The policy holds good even for sub-regional cooperation in South Asia. The first visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a South Asian country was to the predominantly Buddhist neighbour Bhutan, and then to Nepal, where Gautam Buddha was born. And now, Japan, his first visit to a country of his choice outside South Asia, is significant. Before his departure, the Prime Minister said his “visit will write a new chapter in the annals of the relations between Asia’s two oldest democracies and take our Strategic and Global Partnerships to the next higher level.” He has tweeted in Japanese saying he has very warm memories of previous visits to Japan - twice as chief minister of Gujarat - and that this time he intends to interact with all sections of Japanese society from students, political leaders to captains of industry. Japan is the only country that remained a partner country for all the Vibrant Gujarat Summits. FOR MORE vijayvaani/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=3314
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:30:54 +0000