Brahma Chellaney is professor emeritus of strategic research on the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi and a former adviser to India’s National Security Council. He is the writer of 9 books, together with “Water: Asia’s New Battleground.”

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s journey this coming weekend to New Delhi, shut on the heels of Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese’s personal India tour, is indicative of rising strategic cooperation among the many Indo-Pacific area’s main democracies.