International Politics in Northeast Asia: The China-Japan-United States Strategic Triangle

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And we can say that persuading China and Japan to acknowledge the U. Then, we will look into Japan. Nowadays, Japan is in a unique dilemma which has never seen before. That is to say, Japan desires to keep balance in the East Asia recognizing that China is growing rapidly. On the other hand, Japan, however, looks forward to cooperating with China to keep peace and promote the development of East Asian region and all the Asian area in the fields of economy and other facets.

Moreover, it is much important for Japan to cooperate with China, in order to restrain American affection in East Asia. And then, it is highly possible that U. As a result, the importance of Japan to Washington will decrease and their present cooperation and friendship in East Asian region will dilute or disappear rapidly. In a word, Whether the U. On the other hand, it is much difficult or impossible for Japanese government to realize the reforms on its economic structure in the near future, which will be triggered by its domestic consumption instead of the present export-oriented pattern.

Most importantly, the markets of China and America, which are the top two trade partners presently, are both extremely important for Japanese economic recovery. So, the further economic cooperation with the U. In addition, the diplomatic relationships with China and the U.

Since the policy of reform and opening-up was implemented in , China has achieved fruitful achievements in its economic development and social structural reforming. It is true that China at the primary stages merely concerned about its domestic situation more than 30 years ago. However, it has completely opened its door to the whole world and is gradually integrated into the global political and economic activities. China is rising peacefully to an indispensable power in the constitution of a multi-polar world. Therefore, China still needs a peaceful and comfortable external environment in order to keep its internal high-speed economic development.

Moreover, Chinese government intends to change its industrial structure in order to sustain the economic growth more efficiently and in lower pollution. And vice verse, the large market in China is very attractive for exportation of Western countries, which will create great profit for multinational companies and boosts the global economic growth, including the U. Furthermore, as Japan and the U. And as an important promoter, the Chinese government is actively encouraging the domestic corporations to go outside and make investment in foreign countries, among which, U.

It is a absolutely fact that due to the stability of the triangular system composing of the United States, Japan and China, the peace and the economic development in the Asia-Pacific region could be basically kept for the past few decades. Of course, the system itself has undergone tremendous changes and development.

And especially due to the occurrence of the financial crisis, more factors of instability appeared suddenly, which maybe destroy the general balance in the Asia-Pacific region. However, we can also regard it as the development and transformation of the stabilizer in new level.

On the other hand, it is necessary to clarify the instability, which came from both inside and outside of the triangular system.

So, the changes of interest objects are the main factors influencing the adjustment of competitive relation. Besides, comprehensive national strengths including economics, financial resources, mineral resources, politics, military, regional influence and social force have extremely significant impact on the transformation of international relations. Currently, the potential changes of national strengths have been the main producers and promoters of the changes of the internal structure in the triangular relation.

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In addition, Interference factors outside of the triangular structure will influence and restrain the development of the regional relations. It is true Japan was an economic power in the s and still remains leading position in current global economics. On the other hand, before the financial crisis, homeland security was considered as the priority for the governors in each country, especially after September 11 terrorist attacks. However, the financial crisis made the governors in each country think of the importance of the economic security.

Now, both the economic security and the homeland security escalated into the two pillars of national security for most countries in current world. Here, we have to mention Japan. Japan is a special country, whose homeland security is fundamentally depending on the alliance with the United States and the economic security is mainly sustained by the cooperation with Asian countries, especially with China.

Meanwhile, with the gradual weakening of the Japanese economy, economic security for Japan is becoming more and more important. That is to say, Japan has to work more actively with the Asian countries including China in order to keep itself far from the economic insecurity. So, Japan is in a dilemma between China and the United States.

Regional Security in Northeast Asia and the Russia–Japan–U.S. Triangle

And Japan cannot turn back to one and approach the other one when dealing with U. In summary, in economic, Japan has been the strong power and will keep the status for the next few years. But, in political, Japan is still on the way to become world-class power.

And then, the foreign strategies of the United States and China, another two great powers in the Asia-Pacific region, will decide the future development of the stability mechanism in this area.

Relatively to Japan, as world-class great powers both in politics and in economics, the U. Because both two countries are worldwide strong powers, their move on the international stage is restrained to a certain degree. And they will have to consider more effects in theory and balance more strength in practical. Ultimately, they will do less adjustment correspondently.

As a result of the fact, the triangular structure above will fundamentally keep the traditional architecture. At least, two basic points will not have too much loose or reoriented, and Japan is continuously moving on the line between the two. And another reason for explaining the stableness in the foreign strategies of China and the U.

Or we can say they received less influence from outside than other countries. On the other side, due to the needs of domestic development in economics respectively, both the U. For the United States and Japan, it would mean not trying to contain or exclude China, and being open and responsive to its initiatives and legitimate claims. For Russia, it would mean continuing to maintain friendly and cooperative relations with Beijing, while keeping a reasonable distance and not committing itself to this cooperation — neither in words nor in deeds — to such an extent that this effectively becomes an anti-U.

The allure of securing a powerful ally is, again, understandable, but, in the long run, the return of bloc thinking is going to be detrimental to the entire international community. Analytics Regions Topics Subjects. Triangle May 21, Add Reader In Login if you are already registered. Short version of the article Full version of the article. Practical Recommendations To maintain peace, security, and strategic stability in Northeast Asia from the viewpoint of the Russia-Japan-U.

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