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Founded in 2005, Asia Centre is an independent research institute that holds debates and issues publications on matters relating to international, strategic, economic relations, as well as the political and social transformations underway in the Asia-Pacific region. At the crossroads of university research as well as public and private decision-making, Asia Centre researchers identify critical regional issues and analyse them in-depth, taking into consideration both local and global dimensions. Asia Centre’s programs are developed with a vast network of partners, companies and major specialist centres in Europe, North America and Asia. The Centre carries out joint operations with these groups, for a better interpretation of ideas and issues. The conclusions of these meetings, such as the results of the work carried out using original sources by our researchers, are widely distributed through the Centre’s publications as well as through international journals, books and media.

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G2: as simple as a phone call ?

4 April 2024 No Comments

PDF Jean-François Di Meglio shares a new analysis about the Sino-American discussion, April the 2nd. « April 2nd’s telephone call with president Joe Biden fortified the mutual tone of respect

[DiploMatrix Q1 2024] • Comparative analysis of the China-Philippines and China-Vietnam pairs • François Issard and Élodie Papin

11 March 2024 No Comments

PDF DiploMatrix ranks the Philippines in the top 10 countries with the highest tensions with China. In contrast to the deterioration in China-Philippines relations illustrated by the “DiploMatrix” tool, a

Security implications of Taiwan’s Presidential and Parliament Elections • Maëlle Lefèvre

18 January 2024 No Comments

PDF In her new brief, Maëlle Lefèvre, researcher at Asia Centre — and specialising in the Indo-Pacific region, Greater China, and more specifically China-Taiwan relations — delves into the security

JA 30 – What is the Political Agenda of Abe Shinzō’s Government? – Aug 2013

As the surveys announced, the Liberal-Democratic Party had a sweeping victory during the senatorial elections on the 21 July 2013. This triumph came about after the Prime Minister, Shinzō Abe, in June 2013, unveiled the highly awaited “third arrow”. This arrow is from a program (“Abenomics”) whose purpose is to remodel Japan’s economy and sustainably reinstate the country’s growth: a plan for economic modernisation, to revitalise the private sector with public commissions, and the liberalisation of innovative sectors. It also includes greater support for opening the country to the international market. In light of the number of seats won by the LDP, it appears that Japanese voters have elected a policy associating a reaffirmation of Japanese economic power with a rhetoric much more nationalistic than other previous governments.

As such, Abe’s government knows that the Japanese and international opinion currently fears that the Prime Minister will use this extensive power not to pursue his reformation programme, but rather to advance his pacific revision project for the 1947 Constitution, to which several Japanese remain deeply attached. How to reconcile the Prime Minister’s zeal for strengthening relations with the United States within the context of an expanded alliance supported by South-Eastern Asian countries hostile toward China’s maritime aims by reviewing this Constitution written during the period of time when Japan was occupied by the supreme command of the Allied forces?

Summary

– CLOSE UP ON THE NEWS –

Prime Minister Abe and the Japan-US Alliance: History is in the way again (Yann Favennec)

Abenomics: a return to traditional LDP policies or a new way out of the crisis? (Adrienne Sala)

– POINTS OF NEWS –

Interview with Honda Etsurō, “The central issues in Abenomics; towards a plan for economic renaissance beginning with a “change of regime”, Gaikō (Translated by Sophie Buhnik and re-read by Nicolas Morishita)

Yachi Shōtaro, “At the heart of Abe’s diplomatric strategy: forming an alliance with Asian countries with shared values and outlooks”, Gaikō (Translated by Sophie Buhnik and re-read by Nicolas Morishita)