RIAC Policy Brief 16, 2018
The three nations of Russia, Japan, and the United States face common security challenges in Northeast Asia. The ... ... long term solution remains far from guaranteed. The task of accommodating the growing China’s influence is another challenge to be dealt with by the three powers.
The global... ... and Russia should make utmost effort to overcome the vicious circle of distrust, accusations, pressure, and threats that is building up between them, and the political...
... Trump making his first official visits to the countries of the region. Asia awaited Trump’s arrival with a sense of unease.
China expected Trump to make decisive statements about the “North Korean dossier” and the growing trade deficit between the ... ... today is a hard-line negotiator. South Korea was concerned Trump would denounce the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement. Japan was worried the President of the United States would force them to enter negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement....
... symptomatic that analysts decided to begin with a potential East Asian crisis, which suggests that the issue of “rising China” is becoming an increasingly higher priority on Atlantic strategists’ agenda, dwarfing the threats in the Russian ... ... that China is emerging (or, possibly, has already emerged) as such a rival.
Game plan
REUTERS/Tim Kelly
Nikolai Murashkin:
Japan–US Union and Southeast Asia: Getting
closer to cement the status quo?
The Asia–Pacific Region is not running ...
... same thing.” The logic of maintaining the status quo by seeking changes as the core idea of the convergence between the Japan–US alliance and Southeast Asia can be discovered in the recently published report by the Hawaii-based East-West Center ... ... under analysis suggests spreading the scope of the Japan–US collaboration over Southeast Asia.
The echo of the Japan–China confrontation with respect to Southeast Asia has reverberated in global institutions, which became quite apparent in 2016 ...
... regional integration group. Promoting their philosophy of economic development, professed to its regional neighbors as well, Japan's leaders
stressed
in a somewhat instructional tone that economic prosperity goes hand in hand with successful democratization ... ... values in strengthened cooperation with partners both inside the region (Australia, India) and outside it (Great Britain, the USA).
As to the economy per se, it should be noted that the reaction of the Paper’s authors to the sensational, albeit not detailed China’s “One Belt, One Road” megaproject has been restrained enough. This initiative is given some attention ...
... cause for concern here? Could a conflict between both Koreas that is capable of drawing the world’s leading powers of China, Japan and Russia in erupt on Russia’s doorstep? Could such a conflict involve weapons of mass destruction?
Today, we can ... ... Zedong’s own son). From the point of view of geopolitics, preserving the South Korean buffer that prevents the appearance of thousands of U.S. and South Korean troops along the 1000-kilometre long border between Korea and China is imperative for Beijing....
... the 38th parallel to delimit the zone where the Soviet and U.S. armed forces accepted Japan’s capitulation to end the Second World War continues to separate the two... ... between the countries – the two Koreas have been building up their armies, with thousands of troops equipped with the most up-to-date weapons and military equipment ready... ... the state of relations between East and West, between the USSR, the United States and China. It is no coincidence that the first joint declaration released by North and South...
On the morning of April 15, 2015, the website of the U.S. Department of the Treasury published its Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities
indicator for February, and there was a new name at the top of the list
. After six years, Japan has regained its leading position as the U.S. government’s primary borrower. The country has $1,224.4 billion, followed by China with $1,223.7 billion. Together, they make up 39.7 per cent of the total $6,162.8 billion held by foreign countries in U.S. treasury securities. Japan’s lead over China is some $700 million. However, this amount is negligible when the size ...
... joined by leading exporting countries, which formed the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), including Canada, Australia, France and China.
Narendra Modi’s government had to unfreeze the contracts concluded with foreign companies in the US and France before ... ... neither the warm relations between Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe, nor the common vision of foreign threats nor the interest of Japanese companies faced with falling demand for their equipment on the domestic market after the Fukushima nuclear power plant ...
The struggle for offshore resources has intensified in East Asia, and Japan-China tensions seem of particular concern. Due to its alliance treaty with Japan, the United States is also involved in the conflict. The Japanese Ministry of Defense has, for the first time ever, qualified the situation around the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands ...
