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Center for Japanese Studies Seminar Series
Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies
Asia for the Asians 2.0:
China, Japan and a New Framework for Regional Stability
Paula Harrell
Adjunct Professor of History,
Georgetown University
Shall we focus on the possibility of good news for a change? As a
follow-on to our recent panel on tensions in Northeast Asia, Paula
Harrell will discuss signs of a continued warming trend in China-Japan
relations as new regional arrangements make partnership an increasingly
rational choice. China wants Japan to join the China-led Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB); Japan is receptive to China's
entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). A cabinet level
economic summit between the two nations is in the offing, possibly for
late March. Geography, established trade interdependence, common
environmental and energy problems, China's shift to a service economy,
Japan's long experience in industrial and financial management, all
suggest the mutual benefits of a bilateral approach. This is precisely the
approach outlined in detail in the Fukuda/Hu Jintao statement in 2008,
a document reaffirmed in the meeting between President Xi Jinping and
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo at APEC in 2014. Is the weight of events
now favoring detente? Please join the debate on March 4 on this
critically important topic.
Friday, March 4th, 2016
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)
Center for Japanese Studies
1890 East-West Road, Moore 216
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
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