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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) with Chinese "colleague" Li Keqiang in Beijing (LaPresse)
Asia "bubbling". This is the Donald Trump factor that agitates the debates – and pushes toward unpublished political configurations and economic alliances -. And the trade war that the US president has declared against his enemies (read Beijing: tariffs on Chinese products for $ 250 million) and his friends (including Japan). The result? The Asian political agenda is radiant. Today, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has landed in China, two countries used to look at each other for a long time. But it's not enough: the same Abe to receive Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Tokyo, which will arrive Sunday for the annual summit between the two nations (this is the third time that the Indian Prime Minister is in Japan). A vertiginous triangulation: the two games, between China and Japan on one side and between Japan and India on the other, are inextricably linked. What many badysts call the new Cold War, which is fighting in the waters of the Indian Ocean, is at stake..
China and Japan are looking into (common) affairs. After meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Abe said the two countries wanted to promote "new economic cooperation". theThe Japanese Prime Minister, accompanied by 500 businessmen, used enthusiastic tones. "From competition to collaboration, we want to bring relations between Japan and China into a new era. Japan and China are neighbors and partners. We will not become a threat to each other. "For his part, Li spoke about the normal relations between the two countries, and said that China wants to bring economic and trade cooperation new phase. "And not only that: Tokyo and Beijing have expressed their willingness to improve communications to avoid" casual "incidents between the two armies making the East China Sea a" sea of peace, cooperation and d & # 39; friendship ".
China consolidates its power in the waters of the Indian Ocean
Up to here the diplomacy of the smile (and business). But what is nested and another is superimposed. Because Japan also takes another route: the military confinement of the Chinese superpower. Looking at a historic enemy of Beijing: India. Abe and Nodi will sign a logistics agreement that will allow each country to access the naval bases of the other. In practice, Japanese naval vessels will use Indian bases in Andaman and Nicobar Islands to refuel and obtain other services. The Indian Navy will in turn have access to Japanese facilities. For the first time then, the Indian Army and Japan's land-based self-defense force will also carry out drills in Vairengte, Mizoram State, north-east India, in November. Mizoram has no borders with China, but it is not far from Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian state that was the scene of a brief and bitter war between India and China in 1962.
The challenge is the control of the roads that cross the Indian Ocean, which has become one of the most important maritime areas of the world, subject to trafficking and conflict. More than 60% of global oil shipments pbad through its water, as well as 70% of all container traffic to and from Asia's industrialized countries.
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