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Japan Turns Its Back on China
In-between two world-powers, the U.S., and China, Japan has been led around by the nose and always will be. To keep having an influence on Asia-Pacific areas, US government invited Japan to join in American-centered economical framework - TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) - while China tried to draw Japan into Asian-based framework, ASEASN (Association of South East Asian Nations) + 3 (Japan, South Korea and China), which is aimed to be like EU-based strong union in the future. The ultimate purpose of TPP is to get rid of customs duly that is applied on every item traded bi-lateral nations who are members of the framework, at the mean time, there is an American speculations to rule out Chinese influence in the global context. Since Japan is proud of the third largest economy as well as its first-rate status in the world, the both of the world-powers tried to embark the nation into their groups. Today, Japanese Prime-Minister, Noda, announced...
Asian New Frameworks
Aiming their goal at EU-like framework, Japanese and Chinese governments advanced Asian economic unification in the last ASEAN + 3 (Japan, China and South Korea) conference. While Japan promoted wide-range of Asian economic integration as ASEAN + 6, including India, China tried to go ahead with ASEAN + 3. They, finally, postponed the decision to build the future framework. Source(s): http://www.asahi.com/business/update/0812/TKY201108120575.html?ref=rss http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/plusyouingtravel/19761379.html http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/success0965/6946383.html