{"id":29297,"date":"2018-10-24T18:05:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29297"},"modified":"2018-10-24T18:05:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:35:27","slug":"the-east-asian-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-east-asian-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"The East Asian reset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/the-east-asian-reset\/article23918444.ece\"><b>The East Asian reset<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pallavi Aiyar, a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, observes that China-Japan relations which are usually tensed have being reset and on an upswing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Important News:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Recently, China is trying to improve its relation with India as well as Japan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Chinese Premier Li Keqiang\u2019s visit to Japan on May 2018 is significant because of two reasons:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the Premier\u2019s first visit to Japan since assuming office five years ago. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the first top-level bilateral visit after the Senkaku and Diaoyu Island disputes in the East China Sea of 2012 turned their relations sour.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> During the visit,<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Chinese Premier met the Japanese Emperor Akihito.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signed a deal with Japan to deliver a pair of ibises since Japan\u2019s last wild crested ibis dies in 2003<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Recent developments in China-Japan relations:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In September 2017, Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the first Japanese leader in 15 years to attend the Chinese Embassy\u2019s annual National Day celebrations in Tokyo.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both Prime Ministers met on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently there is resumption of high level economic dialogue after eight years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China\u2019s State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Japan in April 2018.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In early May 2018, the PM of Japan called up the Chinese PM to discuss the new developments taking place in the Korean Peninsula.This was the first phone call ever between the two leaders.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Issues between China and Japan:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China is still bitter with Japan\u2019s invasion of China before the Second World War. China feels Japan has not yet paid for its brutality.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the Second World War, Japan became an ally of USA, who China considers as its rival.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rival claims over the Senkaku-Diaoyu islands of the East China Sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both the countries compete for increasing their influence in the region, especially in Southeast Asia which is emerging as a field for both the countries to compete.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China has eclipsed Japan as a global geostrategic player, taking the role onto itself.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Complementarity of China-Japan ties:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both China and Japan are economically intertwined.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan was a major contributor to China\u2019s rise as an economic superpower. From a backward agrarian economy China transformed into a global manufacturing powerhouse. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to The Japan External Trade Organisation, China-Japan trade stands at about $350 billion (by comparison, India-China trade is $84.44 billion).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan led Asian Development Bank is exploring co-financing projects with China led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> According to Shin Kawashima, a China scholar at the University of Tokyo, the following are the reasons behind Japan\u2019s hand of friendship to China:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An unpredictable policies of U.S:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(i)Trump\u2019s America First Policy and tariffs slapped on $60 billion worth of\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese products have impacted Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(ii)Japan, an ally of U.S did not get any exemption from new duties on steel and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aluminium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(iii)US has been going back on many of its major international commitments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(iv)US policy towards Japan and the wider region has increasingly become \u201cfragile and\u00a0<\/span>vague\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, Japan needs to engage with China in an unbiased manner till it is sure of USA\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intentions. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(i)Japan hopes that China would use its influence in North Korea to highlight Japan\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(ii)Japan feels that it is not playing as significant a role as China, in the events which are\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">taking place in its own neighbourhood. This is eclipsing Japan\u2019s hopes of becoming an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Influential regional player.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(iii)Japan is worried that in an effort to improve ties with Korea, USA might forget about\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the 12 Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970\u2019s and \u201880s who still <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">remain unaccounted for. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business interests:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Japanese business groups who have invested in China have sometimes suffered\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">due to tension in ties. These groups have always wanted stronger bilateral ties.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Reasons behind China\u2019s hand of friendship to Japan:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan asking for China\u2019s support in North Korea enhances China\u2019s International clout.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the backdrop of the simmering trade war with US and China\u2019s trade ties with Japan would be economically beneficial.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China is trying to get Japan to go along with China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative. Japan had initially hesitated but said it would join China\u2019s BRI as long as the infrastructure projects were open, transparent, fair and economically feasible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Political Analyst, Pallavi Aiyar, feels the present China-Japan alignment is a tactical and provisional affair born out of geopolitical compulsions. This thaw in ties is not long-term and strategic. It is more of a pause in the tensed relations rather than resolution of conflict.Just like in the case of India-China reset, it would only be temporarily beneficial to both countries as the underlying issues have not yet been solved.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The East Asian reset News: Pallavi Aiyar, a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, observes that China-Japan relations which are usually tensed have being reset and on an upswing. 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