Richard Pomfret

Jun 26, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Rumi Aoyama |Richard Pomfret |Jiannan Luo |Kyuseok Kim

Japan is one of the countries most affected by geopolitical competition between the United States and China. Although the economies of Japan and China seem to be on the first track of economic decoupling in many ways as a result, they are actually only experiencing a period of structural economic change. Contrary to the prevailing perception, Japanese initiative, not the US–China rivalry, is driving the structural shifts in Japan’s economic security policy.

Dec 26, 2023 | eastasiaforum.org | Richard Pomfret |Allison Alexy |Yiping Huang |Sayuri Shirai

Author: Richard Pomfret, University of AdelaideIn 2023, the Central Asian leaders showed increased willingness to institutionalise cooperation through annual summits and unified approaches to third countries. Despite foreign policy challenges associated with the Russia–Ukraine war, water disputes with Afghanistan and clashes on the Kyrgyz–Tajik border, the focus of these meetings remained economic.