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The time is ripe for the enhancement of Philippines-India strategic partnership

PERSPECTIVE

BY AMBASSADOR AMIT DASGUPTA AND DON MCLAIN GILL

THE driving force in a meaningful bilateral partnership is the convergence in perspectives on shared challenges and concerns, coupled with collaborative steps to counter it. Most soft attributes, such as shared commitment to democracy, the English language, a colonial past, to name a few, are essentially peripheral to a relationship, though they can certainly be enablers.