... 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
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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....
The week-long visit to the USA by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has left a quite ambiguous impression. One gets the sense that it was the Americans ... ... others. As a result the main results of the visit were limited to two points: the key role of the American security system in the Asia-Pacific region was reconfirmed, and the American trade and economic initiative to create the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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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Last week a Chinese worker was killed and several factories were set on fire by Vietnamese protesters who reacted violently to China’s placement of rig in disputed waters in the East Asian Sea. Taiwanese factories were the prime target, and thousands of Chinese nationals were evacuated from Vietnam.
All this anecdotal evidence goes to show that, instead of the decoupling of economic and politico-security issues, they are, as suggested in the hypothesis above, very closely linked.
China’s ...
... security across the entire region. The Pentagon believes that any potential conflict can only be deterred through a multilateral security architecture based on ASEAN mechanisms, with Australia, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and India as key actors. Asia-Pacific countries generally seek to establish regional norms and strive for a stable military balance. However, according to US defense analysts, the key source of instability there is the North Korean nuclear programme, which serves as the main ...
