India, Nov. 30 -- From the time he started living in 7 Lok Kalyan Marg, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it a priority to have close relations with the United States. He knew that when a kinetic conflict with China came, a US-India partnership would make the difference between Democracy prevailing over Autocracy. Japan has been, from the start of its transition from Autocracy to Democracy in 1945, a treaty ally of the US. Now Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan made tempers flare in nearby China. She had said that any effort by the authoritarian superpower to take over Taiwan would be a grave threat to the security of Japan. By gaining control of Taiwan, the People's Republic of China would have breached the first island chain of defe...