Japan, India hold their first security talks, amid China’s rising military presence

Japan and India held inaugural security talks on Saturday at which they are expected to affirm coordination in building a free and open Indo-Pacific in a veiled counter to China’s rising assertiveness and military build-up.Meeting in New Delhi, the foreign and defence ministers of the two Asian democracies will speed up negotiations for an acquisition and cross-servicing agreement, or ACSA, which would allow the two sides to share defence capabilities and supplies including fuel and ammunition,…