What We're Tracking Japan's Takaichi goes to India. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi from July 1-3 in New Delhi for the two countries' 16th annual summit. During the meeting, Takaichi will seek to bolster cooperation with India on economic security measures, especially efforts to guarantee energy and critical mineral supplies, such as rare earths, amid growing U.S. trade protectionism and Chinese export restrictions. She will also seek to deepen defense cooperation, with an eye toward deterring Chinese threats to maritime freedom of navigation and disruptions to key shipping straits, like those recently seen in the Strait of Hormuz. Modi, however, has tried to avoid strongly aligning with either U.S. or Japanese defense and economic security efforts aimed directly at China, preferring to bolster its own defense capabilities at large without expressly targeting China.