Japan, China, Russia, and the American “Pivot”

A Triangular Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID23212432
AuthorsLowell Dittmer (0000-0001-7871-4204, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages185-211
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueTroubled Triangle (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137316851_9
OpenAlexW2476669860
ISBN9781137316851
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

Japan, China, Russia, and the United States, four of the most powerful nations in the world, positioned cheek by jowl in Northeast Asia with some of the world's most extensive trade and mutually interlocking investments binding them together, have long had "complicated" political-strategic relations. They form two duos, each of which is or was formally bound by a mutual security alliance. In focus here is the Japan-US security alliance (JUSA). Though the JUSA is "the most important bilateral relationship in the world, bar none" (according to former ambassador Mike Mansfield), forming the northern tier of the pentagonal US "hub-and-spokes" Asian-Pacific alliance network, it is a bilateral alliance from which China is excluded. The JUSA has never been explicitly directed against China but against the former Soviet Union, wherein it enjoyed full Chinese support. Since the end of the Cold War eliminated the Soviet Union as a target of the alliance and both Sino-American and Sino-Japanese relations began for a number of reasons to fray, China's view of the alliance has grown increasingly skeptical, however.KeywordsGross Domestic ProductChinese Communist PartyGross Domestic Product GrowthSecurity AllianceStrategic TriangleThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Alliance · Business · China · Cold war · Economics · Economy · Geography · International trade · Political science · Politics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law

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