India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi delighted his Japanese hosts on Monday, the key day of his state visit, with an apparent swipe at China and an offer to facilitate business from Japan.

Modi, addressing Japanese industrialists, said that expan-sionism would never lead to progress in the 21st century, and referred to maritime tensions, a clear dig at China, which is locked in conflict with Japan over the Senkaku islands.

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