Jan 1, 2021
When U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy gets the boot on Jan. 20, it will be replaced by Joe Biden’s more outward-looking and cooperative approach in Asia one in which Japan is widely expected to play an integral part.
As Washington looks warily at China’s rise, it will aim for Japan to play a placeholder role as the Biden White House focuses immediately on reining in the coronavirus pandemic that has left about 340,000 dead in the U.S.
“They’ll have no choice but to take care of that damage first,” a senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official said on condition of anonymity. “This will be less about (the Asia-Pacific region) being lowered in priority than about repairing that damage.”
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Capping eight years of tough, on-and-off negotiations, representatives from 15 countries across the Asia-Pacific gathered in a virtual meeting last month to sign a gargantuan new free trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. Encompassing all 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, along with Japan, China, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, RCEP will cover around 30 percent of both the world’s population and GDP, making it the world’s largest trading bloc. While its trading rules and market access provisions are not as far-reaching as the other main multilateral agreement in the region, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP, RCEP is still expected to pla
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Three nations could rule the world together if they wanted
China, Japan, and South Korea could brush the United States aside â if they could only get past centuries of conflict.
By Stephen Kinzer Contributor,Updated December 10, 2020, 2:30 a.m.
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China s Premier Li Keqiang, center, waved as he left a press conference with South Korea s President Moon Jae-in, left, and Japan s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, in China last year.WANG ZHAO/Associated Press
As most Americans were grasping the reality of President Trumpâs electoral defeat last month, something happened on the other side of the earth that may prove even more momentous. Fifteen Asian countries representing one-third of humanity signed the biggest international trade deal ever. The new bloc is dominated by three of the worldâs most vibrant nations: China, Japan, and South Korea. Combined, they have wealth equal to that of the United States and more than four times the population. All thre