Evolving landscape for inclusive growth in ASEAN: A regional overview (Presentation)
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Session1:Protec.ngtheASEANCommunity fromEvolvingPoli.cal-SecurityChallenges
ASEAN and Japan Should Take a Firmer
Stand to Build a Rule-based Order
Masashi Nishihara President
Research Institute for Peace and Security Tokyo
Contents 1SouthChinaSeaToday2China’sStrategy3WhatCanBeDoneToHedgeChina? a.ASEAN’sRole b.TheUnitedStates’Role c.Japan’sRole4ASEANattheCenteroftheIndo-PacificOcean
1The South China Sea Today ChinaignoresTheHaguedecisionTheASEAN-ChinaCOCFrameworkisnotonterritorialresolu.onsChina’smilitaryaircraTwithfourairbasesChinacri.calofUSFONOVietnamandChinacri.calofeachother’sac.vi.es(militaryandoildrilling)
2 China’s Strategy To prevent ASEAN’s unity To achieve hegemony over and beyond the SC Sea To drive wedge between Japan and the US To drive US forces from the 2nd Island Chain To achieve hegemony in western Pacific and Indian Ocean(One Belt One Road)
China’s Airbase at Mischief Reef
3 What Can Be Done to Hedge China?
3aASEAN’sRoleASEANshouldretainamul.lateralapproach
ASEANshouldconsiderformingaSouthChinaSeagroupASEANshouldmaintainclose.eswiththeUSanditsregionalpartners
3WhatCanBeDonetoHedgeChina? 3bTheUnitedStates’RoleAstrongJapan-USAllianceisakeytoIndo-PacificsecurityAstrongerJapan-Philippines-USalliancewouldbecrucialforafavorablebalanceofpowerUSshouldcon.nueitsFONOintheSCSeaUSshouldweigh.eswithAustraliaandIndia
Prime Minister Abe and President Trump
Japan-Philippines Bond
3WhatCanBeDonetoHedgeChina? 3cJapan’sRolePrimeMinisterAbehasaglobaloutlookinhisdiploma.cac.vi.esHeisac.veinregionalleadership,whichisfillingthegapcreatedbytheperceived decliningUSroleJapanshouldkeepthealliancewithUSendurableforIndo-Pacificsecurity
3 What Can Be Done to Hedge China? 3aJapan’sRole(con.nued)ASEANisatthegeographicalcenterofIndo-PacificregionJapanshouldworkforarule-basedorderJapanshouldsupportASEAN’s“capacity-building”andbalancingactJapanshouldencourageASEANtojoinTPP
Japan's Sea Lines
Indo-Pacific region
Thank you very much