Good News Japan ready to cooperate with China on global trade plan, Shinzo Abe says

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Japan ready to cooperate with China on global trade plan, Shinzo Abe says
Meeting Asia’s demand for infrastructure through cooperation will contribute greatly to the prosperity of Asian people, Japanese leader says


PUBLISHED : Monday, 04 December, 2017, 10:07pm
UPDATED : Monday, 04 December, 2017, 10:07pm

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday expressed his intention to cooperate with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pet cross-border infrastructure development project while stressing the need for open economic activity across Asia.

“I believe Japan will be able to cooperate well with China, which has been putting forward its one belt, one road initiative” in a free and open Indo-Pacific region, Abe said.

The prime minister made the remarks during a reception at a two-day gathering in Tokyo involving Japanese and Chinese business executives.

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Tokyo is looking to improve ties with Beijing as this year marks the 45th anniversary of the normalisation of relations, and next year will mark 40 years since the signing of a bilateral peace and friendship treaty.

Abe hopes to host a trilateral summit involving Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and South Korean President Moon Jae In before the end of this year.

“Meeting robust infrastructure demand in Asia through cooperation between Japan and China will contribute greatly to the prosperity of Asian people, in addition to the economic development of the two countries,” Abe said.

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At the same time, Abe reiterated the need for wide-ranging transparency measures in China-led infrastructure projects.

The “Belt and Road Initiative”, first touted by Xi in 2013, involves massive investment to connect both a land-based economic belt on the ancient Silk Road route and a maritime corridor spanning from China to Southeast Asia, India, Africa and Europe.

Abe said he hoped Xi would visit Japan “as early as possible”, while expressing his willingness to travel to China first.







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[Enigma_]

Small words but this will not go down well with a particular neighbour of Pakistan and China. So grab the popcorn.

 

[BHarwana]

Thanks to Kim they all will cooperate with China, just make sure Kim keeps flying high and high and higher.

 

[TaiShang]

Thanks to Kim they all will cooperate with China, just make sure Kim keeps flying high and high and higher.

Thanks to Kim, perhaps, only partially, because the BRI is much bigger than the DPRK question. Japan is either in or out, and if it is out, what Japan is left with is an increasingly protectionist US market.

Now, this Indo-Pacific is nice to keep Indians tickling and fickling, but, in reality, it is a much greater facade than the "Rebalance to Asia" had ever been. Well, the Pivot is dead. TPP is rotting. Japan has but China to open its own economy up. Not just China's, say, 24 million strong annual auto market, but also the markets China opens up via the Belt and Road.

Mr. Abe is just showing the pragmatist characteristics of East Asian leadership, although, he is still not the head of the state of a sovereign nation.

 

[BHarwana]

Thanks to Kim, perhaps, only partially, because the BRI is much bigger than the DPRK question. Japan is either in or out, and if it is out, what Japan is left with is an increasingly protectionist US market.

Now, this Indo-Pacific is nice to keep Indians tickling and fickling, but, in reality, it is a much greater facade than the "Rebalance to Asia" had ever been. Well, the Pivot is dead. TPP is rotting. Japan has but China to open up. Not just China's, say, 24 million strong annual auto market, but also the markets China opens up via the Belt and Road.

Mr. Abe is just showing the pragmatist characteristics of East Asian leadership, although, he is still not the head of the state of a sovereign nation.

You can thank Kim and Trump both. The higher Kim goes and the Trump works on America first. It will soon be china first for every one. lol. and Abe is not a head of a sovereign nation I would also agree to that part.