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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is launching a new Indo-Pacific strategy and trying to create a front against the more aggressive emerging China.
Why is this important?
China is increasingly aggressively trying to expand its sphere of influence as an emerging superpower in East Asia. The West responds by wanting to contain China and form an alliance of allies as an encirclement. China’s biggest opponent is the United States, whose main ally in East Asia is Japan. As the third largest economy in the world, that island nation bears the responsibility to counterbalance China. Other countries in Asia also expect the same from Japan as a regional superpower.The essence: In recent weeks, Japanese foreign policy has been strikingly present, focusing on more cohesion between states that can help halt China’s rise.
- The main signal for that was when he showed up in India this week and announced a new ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ (FOIP) strategy. That strategy also includes a large economic plan with plenty of investments in infrastructure for countries in the Global South. He would love there
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