Who Indo-Pacific Economic Architecture: U.S.-Japan Security Compromise

TAIPEI- U. S. Commerce Secretary Raymond said on November 18 that the U. S. plans to promote a new Indo-Pacific economic structure that will invite different countries to join, and the process is expected to start early next year. Experts believe that Japan will cooperate with the new regional economic cooperation framework of the United States, but they have different views on the direction of Japan-China economic and trade dependence. The United States and Japan are fully advancing in security. S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo visited Japan, Singapore and Malaysia on her first official trip to Asia since taking office. She said on November 18 that President Biden announced at the end of October that the United States intends to work with partners to develop an Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (Indo-Pacific Economic Framework), covering areas such as supply chain resilience, semiconductors, infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Start the program in early 2022. She said that the structure will also be inclusive and flexible, so that more different countries can join, so this trip to Asia gives her the opportunity to discuss with partner countries and listen to their opinions. Chen Xenia, a professor of Japanese studies degree program at National Chengchi University, said that this new structure introduces the economic security elements that the Biden regime lacks in the Indo-Pacific regional strategy, which means that the United States is preparing a comprehensive Indo-Pacific strategy that combines traditional regional security and economic security. Structure to fully confront the Chinese threat. Japan's Rashida Cabinet also announced in mid-October that it will introduce a bill on the promotion of economic security to Congress in January 2022, which is obviously Japan's desire to further consolidate the foundation of the US-Japan alliance in all aspects. Chen Xenia told VOA: "The content and timing of the two are so strikingly similar, which shows that the United States and Japan want to consolidate the concept of economic security to implement the toughening of the supply chain, and it also means that the new Rashida regime will take a firmer US-Japan policy. Alliance line. Japan will revise three documents, the national security strategy, the outline of the defense plan and the midterm defense force improvement plan, which are long-term indicators of foreign policy and security policy in terms of diplomatic and security work; In this way, we will continue to cooperate with the United States in both diplomatic and economic security, and use 'alliance, economic, military' and other means to contain and contain China. "Heigo Sato, a professor at the Department of International Studies at University in Japan, agrees with this view. In an interview with VOA, he said: "The economic security policy proposed by the Rashida Cabinet is in line with the new Indo-Pacific economic framework introduced by the United States, and will be included in the relevant conditions of economic cooperation conditions. I hope to develop with safe economic partners. Relationship, not just increasing mutual benefit through economic cooperation. While the US and China compete, on climate change, US-China cooperation seems to be confirmed in the US-China summit video summit and the Glasgow Joint Declaration of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, but These measures have not improved the overall relationship between the US and China. In the future, the competition between the two countries in terms of strategic materials and technical support will continue. Of course, Japan will continue to cooperate with the US in both aspects and jointly curb the threat of China. Economic and trade dependence with China may change. S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai mentioned two new concepts of "re-pegging" and "lasting coexistence" in a speech on China's trade policy on October 4. On the same day, Audio Rashida established his first cabinet, declaring that China is Japan's largest trading partner, which is very important to Japan and that the government must continue to dialogue with Beijing. Analysts pointed out that both the United States and Japan have launched economic security policies or structures aimed at China, which may have a negative impact on the economic dialogue between Japan, the United States and China. NATO Ohio, a professor at the Department of International Studies at University Japanese, said that Japan's newly proposed economic security policy has complex but clear goals, such as the regulation of direct investment by foreign companies in Japan, the security of supply chains such as semiconductors, and the review of coursework for university students are to protect Japan from foreign interference, not against China. He said: "The purpose of economic security is to protect economic resources related to Japan's security, not to use it as a means of punishment against China or any specific country. While protecting Japan's economic resources, expand economic exchanges with China. And cooperative action is also importantly politically goal of Japan, and I don't think the two are contradictory. However, economic exchanges are competitive, and maintaining and ensuring the flexibility of economic activity related to Japan's security is also  significant policy. And this is also what the United States is doing Routes the economic and trade between Japan, the United States and China must continue to cooperate and exchange in competition and self-protection, so Japan's economic dependence on China will not change greatly in the short term. "Chen Xenia, a professor of Japanese studies degree program at Chengchi University, takes a different view. He believes that Japan has been striving to maintain a balance between the United States and China for a long time, and adopts the strategic line of "maintaining the alliance between the United States and Japan, and not making bad relations with China" with a view to "relying on the United States for security" and "relying on China for economy and trade". But with China's hegemony threatening Japan's national security and interests, and China's rapidly deteriorating political and economic external environment, the situation has now changed. He said: "The United States is developing towards a regional security and economic structure, and Japan is of course willing to cooperate closely, and it must be within the existing US-Japan security alliance and Japan's leadership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Operational power. On the basis of close cooperation with the United States, once the United States and Japan build a comprehensive diplomatic and economic security alliance, Japan's original "trade and trade depends on China" will also change its course to "trade and trade also depend on the United States", and even affect the change of ASEAN and other India. The Pacific countries' policy of 'economic and trade relying on China' will make the United States'