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Together against China's divide-and-conquer: After years of negotiations, Australia and Japan have signed the Reciprocal Access Agreement. Like-minded states in the Indo-Pacific are strengthening their cooperation to protect themselves against China's reckless behavior.
By Michael Radunski
In January, a huge economic free-trading area will be established with the RCEP. What was intended to be a free trade agreement of the Southeast Asian confederation ASEAN, now mainly benefits China, Japan and South Korea. In this way, the People's Republic is becoming part of a regional free trade agreement for the first time.
By Christiane Kuehl
The China-Japan relationship is characterized by hostility, radio silence and, at the same time, close cooperation. In East Asia policy, the China-Japan relationship has a high priority. This is because both countries are the most strategically important and influential states in the Asian region. But also because of the recent shifts in power from the West to the Asian continent. But the relationship is once again increasingly under a negative light. China's growing global power claims are fueling conflicts between the neighbors. Japan is increasingly concerned about China's behavior in the Indo-Pacific, the human rights situation in Hongkong and its treatment of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang. From U.S. & EU influence in the Indo-Pacific to technology splits and import boycotts to digital partnerships - all China-Japan news from the Table.editors!