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11. Japan-China Relations and the Changing East Asian Regional Order

Author : Ming Wan

Published in: Japan and Asia’s Contested Order

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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Cooperation between Japan and China as the two largest economies in East Asia is essential for any stable and predictable East Asian international order. But the two countries now experience heightened security tension over territorial disputes. They also have competing nationalist narratives about history. Japan is concerned about China gaining more ground and will do its utmost to thwart that. Japan and China are adequate spoilers for each other’s regional leadership ambition. Thus, the Japan-China conflict means an absence of a peaceful and coherent East Asian regional order however we define the term. With uncertainties abound partly due to the unpredictable Trump administration, one cannot rule out a scenario of cautious bilateral improvement of Japan-China relations but that is unlikely to extend to regional cooperation.

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Title: Japan-China Relations and the Changing East Asian Regional Order
Author: Ming Wan
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Book: Japan and Asia’s Contested Order
Print ISBN: 978-981-13-0255-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-13-0256-5

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0256-5_11

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