[I]t is important for Japan to serve as a bridge between the U.S. and Asia and to strengthen economic relations.
The gap China needs to fill over the past year is considerable.
[T]he U.S. is offering its partners a stick without a carrot.
The U.S. is pinning its hopes on India to recoup its influence in the Indo-Pacific.
Countering China has become Washington's open scheme.
The U.S. and the West barely disguise their thinking in taking advantage of India.
Without the U.S. offering greater access to its domestic market, Biden’s IPEF is unlikely to succeed.
There are two things the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework certainly is not. It is not “Indo” and it is not “Pacific.”
If the U.S. truly wants to play a constructive role in the region, why doesn’t it do so through cooperative mechanisms that are already in place?
Allies should be determined first based on shared values, not shared interests.
Economic and trade organizations cannot be tools used by the international community to confront each other.
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