... cooperation between Beijing and Washington in disaster clean-up operations, interaction between military doctors, joint training exercises for engineering troops and participation in humanitarian aid programmes.
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Salvatore Babones:
The Asia-Pacific: More Stable than Anyone
Thinks
They are hardly ground-breaking – they do allow for broader military cooperation between Beijing and Washington, and thus cool the explosive potential of mutual distrust in Chinese–U.S. relations....
... bilateral security treaties, creating the so-called “umbrella spokes”, but now the time has come to stretch the fabric between the spokes and establish direct cooperation between America’s allies in the region
As far as support for the USA’s trade and economic involvement in the Asia-Pacific region is concerned, here the Japanese prime minister very enthusiastically urged
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the American congressmen to support the creation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, regarding which Barack Obama is hoping to table a draft agreement in ...
The Future of Japanese Military Power
The Future of Japanese Military Power
Today, the Asia-Pacific region once again faces the Japanese question: is Japan a peace-broker or peace-breaker? What is the future for Japanese military power? So far, there are two main views on its military reforms. On the one hand, Abe’s aspiration is ...
... forward naval presence coming to the fore. In particular, the strategy provides for ships deployed in forward areas to be increased from 97 in 2014 to 120 by 2020.
The document clearly outlines key operative areas and their hierarchy, with the Indo-Asia-Pacific region acquiring paramount significance. In contrast to the 2007 paper, the text mentions China and its "naval expansion", although cautiously referring to it as to a source of "opportunities and challenges." Through forward ...
No one supports a Chinese challenge to American power in the region, not even Russia
Political pundits routinely identify the Asia-Pacific region as a potential flashpoint for a future war between the great powers. Yes, China is rising, Japan is rearming, and the United States has announced a "pivot" to Asia. But the real risk of a great power war in the Asia-Pacific ...
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influential American magazine
began to argue that China’s inclusion in the TPP project is in the United States’ national interest.
The lively discussion at the last APEC session in Indonesia of the idea to create a Free Trade Area for the Asia-Pacific Region (FTAAPR) in November 2014 contrasted with the failed attempt to sign a final agreement on the TPP in Singapore in February the same year. This
mega-market
accounts for 80 percent of Japan's exports, 60 percent of imports and 70 percent ...
... initiatives are quite promising.
The Pacific Alliance is already one of the major trade blocs in Latin America and the world and has very good prospects for expansion.
APEC and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) matter much for the rapprochement with the Asia-Pacific countries, at least for Mexico, Peru and Chile, which are members of these associations. The TPP project, which includes 12 countries (the USA, 3 countries of the Pacific Alliance, Australia, Brunei, Vietnam, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Japan) is still in the process of negotiations, which are nearing completion. The US is playing the dominant role, striving to occupy the ...
... after the breakup of the USSR has actually been inertia, thereby opening opportunities for the U.S.A. and the People's Republic of China (PRC) to gain a strong foothold in Vietnam. With Russia once again intent on achieving a meaningful presence in Asia-Pacific, it appears appropriate to analyze the role of a strategic partnership with Vietnam within Russia’s regional strategy and a rapprochement as such in relation to Chinese and American interests.
Strategic Partnership: Fact or Fiction
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... Japanese Empire), or ultra-leftists (who call for revolution based on the Marxist-Leninist ideology).
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. The Islands are located between Okinawa and Taiwan and are effectively controlled by Japan, but formerly were a part of Chinese territory one thousand years ago.
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. Likewise, the European Union’s new sanctions against Russia should be also understood as a matter of Transatlantic economic relations. A primary reason why the U.S. government is so insistent on a European sanction is that if ...
... obvious, however, that there is no simple explanation for this recent trend. What follows is an attempt to solve the puzzle and bring the rationale behind S. Abe’s new policies to light. Given the immense role the US-Japan alliance plays in the Asia-Pacific, the potential contents and implications of the forthcoming revision of the US-Japan Guidelines for Defense Cooperation will be addressed below as well.
S. Abe’s Ambitions: From ‘Reluctant Realism’ to Proactive Contribution ...
