https://www.scmp.com/rss/502834/feed David Arase is a resident professor of international politics with the Hopkins Nanjing Centre for Chinese and American Studies at Nanjing University in China en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In early April 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic sharply curtailed Japan’s supply of intermediate and finished goods produced by supply chains anchored in China, Japan earmarked 220 billion yen (US$2 billion) of its emergency economic support package to help Japanese manufacturers shift production of critically needed goods from China to Japan and another 23.5 billion yen (US$221 million) to move production to third countries. The first package of subsidies announced on July 17 included 87... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3096911/coronavirus-has-complicated-china-japan-relations-how-will?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3096911/coronavirus-has-complicated-china-japan-relations-how-will?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Aug 2020 23:00:23 +0000 “Japan will offer its utmost support for efforts by Asean member countries to ensure the security of the seas and skies and rigorously maintain freedom of navigation and overflight.” So said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in his keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in 2014. The pledge was part of his commitment to the Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy touted by the United States and Japan and unveiled in 2016 in the face of rising challenges to the international rules-based order... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3038002/can-japan-persuade-southeast-asia-not-break-rules-based-order?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3038002/can-japan-persuade-southeast-asia-not-break-rules-based-order?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:00:12 +0000