Are the U.S. and Japan on the same page about confronting China?

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Today @ 11 am ET: The Kishida Visit and U.S.–Japan Defense Relations
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Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with President Biden in Washington, D.C. on January 13th. The joint statement issued by the two nations on that date carried further the overall strengthening of the U.S-Japan alliance and Japan’s security policies that have been underway for several years. This has included a significant unprecedented increase in Japanese defense spending.

Although clearly intended to counter-balance rising Chinese regional power and a nuclear-armed North Korea, these developments pose several critical questions for the future stability of Asia. Are Tokyo and Washington now entirely on the same page regarding the handling of China, or do they still differ in potentially major ways? What do the changes in the alliance and Japan’s defense posture portend for a possible future Taiwan conflict? Do these changes strike the right overall balance between deterring and reassuring Beijing regarding Taiwan and other potential regional hotspots?

January 2023

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Mike Mochizuki

Mike Mochizuki is the Japan-US Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute. He co-directs the “Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific” project of the Sigur Center. Professor Mochizuki was Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the Elliott School from 2010 to 2014 and Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies from 2001 to 2005. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.

Yuki Tatsumi

Yuki Tatsumi is a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the Japan Program at the Stimson Center. Before joining Stimson, Tatsumi worked as a research associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as the special assistant for political affairs at the Embassy of Japan in Washington. Tatsumi’s most recent publications include Balancing Between Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament: Views from the Next Generation (ed.; Stimson Center, 2018) Lost in Translation? U.S. Defense Innovation and Northeast Asia (Stimson Center, 2017).

Tobias Harris

Tobias Harris is Deputy Director and a Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is an expert on Japanese politics and foreign policy, East Asian trade and security issues, and US Asia policy. His first book, The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe And The New Japan, was published by Hurst in 2020. Prior to joining GMF, Tobias was senior fellow for Asia at the Center for American Progress, where he managed CAP’s coverage of Asia policy. From 2013 to 2021, he was a political risk analyst at Teneo Intelligence, the political risk arm of Teneo, a strategic advisory firm, where he covered Japan and the Korean peninsula. From 2014 to 2020, he was also economy, trade, and business fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA.

Michael Swaine (Moderator)

Michael D. Swaine, a Senior Research Fellow at QI’s East Asia program, is one of the most prominent American scholars of Chinese security studies. He comes to QI from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he worked for nearly twenty years as a senior fellow specializing in Chinese defense and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian international relations. Swaine served as a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Swaine has authored and edited more than a dozen books and monographs, including Remaining Aligned on the Challenges Facing Taiwan (with Ryo Sahashi; 2019), Conflict and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Strategic Net Assessment (with Nicholas Eberstadt et al; 2015) and many journal articles and book chapters.

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