TOKYO/NEW DELHI—Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday announced a new plan to promote an open and free Indo-Pacific, promising billions of dollars in investment to help economies across the region in everything from industry to disaster prevention.
The plan he announced in New Delhi is seen as Tokyo’s bid to forge stronger ties with countries in South and Southeast Asia to counter China’s growing aggression there.
Kishida also said Japan wanted Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to end as soon as possible and called on the “Global South,” a broad term referring to countries in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Latin America, to “show solidarity” after his talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi….