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API Geoeconomic Briefing

The trade war between China and the United States ushered in an era of “geoeconomics” in which states have used economic tools to achieve their geopolitical agendas. Amid the fog of uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus, how will the four forms of “mega geoeconomics,” which include climate change, technology and innovation, global supply chains, and the rules, norms and standards that shape the international order, impact the future?

API Geoeconomic Briefing will provide unique insight from the experts at Asia Pacific Initiative (API), an independent global think tank, in order to identify burgeoning trends in international politics and economics that foreshadow the post-coronavirus period, think through their geopolitical and geoeconomic significance, and examine their impact on Japan’s national interests and strategy (Editor-in-chief: Dr. HOSOYA Yuichi, Research Director, API & Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University).
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2021.07.12

Pandemic shows Japan needs to figure out how to learn and prepare by SUZUKI Kazuto
2021.07.05

Failure to learn from terrorism and disease hampered Japan’s virus response by URASHIMA Mitsuyoshi
2021.06.28

How Japan can help tackle East Asia’s coronavirus surge by SAGARA Yoshiyuki
2021.06.21

Why a carbon tax would help Japan achieve its green ambitions by OYA Shin
2021.06.14

Why Taiwan is more important than ever to the Japan-U.S. relationship by INOUE Masaya
2021.06.07

Time to re-examine Japan’s longstanding ambiguity over Taiwan by TERAOKA Ayumi
2021.05.31

Why the world depends on Taiwan and TSMC’s high-performance chips by KAWAKAMI Momoko
2021.05.24

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan: Why Japan should prepare for the worst by OUE Sadamasa
2021.05.17

COVID-19 shows that Japan needs to rebuild its infectious diseases strategy by SUZUKI Kazuto
2021.05.10

Robust vaccine supply chain is key to ending the pandemic by SAGARA Yoshiyuki
2021.05.03

How Japan can avoid losing out on the world stage by FUNABASHI Yoichi, HOSOYA Yuichi and JIMBO Ken
2021.04.26

Managing the U.S. and China: Japan’s best way forward by FUNABASHI Yoichi, HOSOYA Yuichi and JIMBO Ken
2021.04.20

What the evolving international order means for Japan by FUNABASHI Yoichi, HOSOYA Yuichi and JIMBO Ken
2021.04.12

China’s maritime policies need a considered response from Japan by MASUO T. Chisako
2021.04.05

Countering China’s threat to the Senkakus requires a full rethink of operations by OYA Shin
2021.03.29

How Japan should deal with China’s new coast guard law by TAKEI Tomohisa
2021.03.22

China’s ambiguous coast guard law a challenge for Japan by TSURUTA Jun
2021.03.15

National consensus needed on the role of Self-Defense Forces in emergencies by OUE Sadamasa
2021.03.08

Japan needs a stronger crisis review system by SAGARA Yoshiyuki, MUKOYAMA Jun and SHIBATA Narumi
2021.03.01

Japan’s lack of preparedness: Lessons from Fukushima and COVID-19 by SUZUKI Kazuto
2021.02.23

The need to deepen fusion with Australia, Japan’s second ally by FUNABASHI Yoichi
2021.02.15

Protecting democracy in a free and open Indo-Pacific by HOSOYA Yuichi
2021.02.08

How to deal with China’s economic statecraft by OYA Shin
2021.02.01

Australia and Japan’s alliance can beat China’s interdependence trap by TERADA Takashi
2021.01.25

Digital network building in the Pacific by MURAI Jun
2021.01.18

What is needed to bring back freedom of movement by SAGARA Yoshiyuki
2021.01.11

Public investment in vaccine development is crucial for Japan’s future by SUZUKI Yasuhiro
2021.01.04

It’s time to reduce the world’s trade dependence on China by OYA Shin
2020.12.28

Why a new Asia policy is needed under Biden by FUNABASHI Yoichi
2020.12.21

How Japan can lead a free and open Indo-Pacific by HOSOYA Yuichi
2020.12.07

The lessons from East Asia’s coronavirus successes by ABE Keishi
2020.11.23

How to adapt to Biden’s trade and climate policies by OYA Shin
2020.11.16

The need to digitalize Japanese society as a whole by MUKOYAMA Jun
2020.11.09

How Japan can become a data powerhouse by MUKOYAMA Jun
2020.10.26

Can Japan keep up in the 21st-century space race? by OUE Sadamasa
2020.10.19

The danger lurking behind the U.S.’s reciprocity policy by OYA Shin
2020.10.12

Why China is eager to promote atomic energy by SHIBATA Narumi
2020.10.05

Why the West continues to get China’s future wrong by TOKUCHI Tatsuhito
2020.09.28

What China’s ‘dual circulation’ strategy means for the world by OYA Shin
2020.09.21

Undersea internet cables offer more resilient connection by MURAI Jun
2020.09.15

How Tokyo can navigate the Japan-U.S.-China trap by FUNABASHI Yoichi
2020.09.07

Ensuring Japan’s future as a strategic partner of the U.S. by HOSOYA Yuichi
2020.08.31

Establishing resistance to overseas influence by OYA Shin
2020.08.24

When international students pose a very real risk by TERAOKA Ayumi
2020.08.11

Designing a vision for Japan’s green recovery by SHIBATA Narumi
2020.08.03

Harnessing technology key to winning race against COVID-19 by MUKOYAMA Jun
2020.07.27

How Japan can help the U.K. meet its China challenge by KOSHINO Yuka
2020.07.20

How to reopen national borders by SAGARA Yoshiyuki
2020.07.13

Coping with China’s economic threat by OYA Shin
2020.06.29

Reconsidering post-coronavirus China investment strategies by TOKUCHI Tatsuhito
2020.06.22

Japan in a post-coronavirus world by ISOBE Koichi
2020.06.15

It’s time to rethink the Japan-U.S. alliance by OUE Sadamasa
2020.06.01

Internet holds the key to the post-coronavirus era by MURAI Jun
2020.05.25

All-out effort needed to learn successful virus response by FUNABASHI Yoichi and HOSOYA Yuichi
2020.05.18

A supersurveillance society and its impact on democracy by FUNABASHI Yoichi and HOSOYA Yuichi
2020.05.11

Neither U.S. nor China will lead post-coronavirus order by FUNABASHI Yoichi and HOSOYA Yuichi
2020.05.04

The search for a leader in the post-coronavirus new order by FUNABASHI Yoichi and HOSOYA Yuichi