Politique étrangère du Japon

Résumé du document

Devoir rendu dans le cadre d'un cours anglophone de Foreign Policy of Japan, discutant les relations entre le Japon et Singapour en termes de buts, de moyens (économiques, politiques, stratégiques) et des politiques menées (ex : JSEPA).

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[...] They are, in particular, used on the Changi Airport Skytrain at Singapore Changi Airport, connecting Terminals and 3. More recently, in 2016, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were working together in signing an agreement for 350km high-speed rail between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Shinzo Abe, on this occasion, said "We had a very good discussion, and I expressed strong expectation regarding the adoption of Japan's bullet train technology." Japanese major economic means is depicted in the "Agreement between the Republic of Singapore and Japan for a New Age Economic Partnership" or Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement (JSEPA), the first FTA for Japan to conclude, in 2002. [...]

[...] The major recipients of JSPP21 training courses are Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. The targeted and resource-maximisation approach of the JSPP21 has been singled out by Japan as a good reference model for their partnerships in the region." JSPP21 is supposed to offer "technical assistance courses such as Trade Facilitation, Maritime Safety, and Climate Change to ASEAN members, with the aim of contributing to their socio-economic development. Furthermore, from its original focus on ASEAN countries, the JSPP21 has also extended its reach to countries in Middle East and Africa as well." Therefore, since 2002, Japan and Singapore kept increasing and deepening their bilateral relationship, also as part of greater multilateral partnerships, such as RCEP, on a regional scale, and CPTPP, on a global scale, looking to the future and to the others. [...]

[...] Indeed, the political issue of the rise of China and the strategic issue of the disputes in the South China Sea are closely related. Within the strategic means, we could thus think about those meetings dealing regularly with strategic issues. Signing agreements in principle and conducting meetings seem to be the privilege mean of Japan, as we have illustrated it with the Ministers meeting above for instance. We may give some examples: in 2017, Singapore and Japan sign a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) on the sidelines of Singapore International Cyber Week 2017 to strengthen cyber security cooperation. [...]

[...] Singapore, thus, has become a key region for Japanese economic purposes. According to JETRO papers, in 2018, Singapore's trade is the most important of all ASEAN members with (unit is 100 million USD): 4,118 in value of export of export growth rate and of export volume growth rate compared to, respectively and for Japan. Singapore is, indeed, a dynamic trade country. One of Japanese first economic goal in Singapore is thus developing trade exchanges to stimulate its own growth rate. [...]

[...] Both countries have overall a very positive relationship. But what about the implications for the region and the surrounding international environment? Regionally, Japan and Singapore are part of the RCEP negotiations, a free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific, which would be an opportunity for Japan to "make up for some lost ground in its market share in China". We may yet note that India decided to withdraw from RCEP negotiations. Globally, Japan and Singapore are part of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), after US withdrawal of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) while the US was supposed to be a support to Japan to regain Asian leadership over China. [...]