In Defense of the Indo-Pacific’s Economic Order - By Shihoko Goto

Yet expectations for the United States to play a key role in shaping the future growth of the Indo-Pacific remain high amid the seismic shifts in the political as well as economic landscape of the region. [...] The fact that the United In contrast, though, the US roadmap for economic States was unable to reach an agreement at leadership in the region has been less clear, the November 2023 APEC meeting on the trade despite the fact that it is the world’s most populous rules of IPEF was a particularly painful blow to US and dynamic region with vested US corporate efforts to take on a leading role in establ. [...] Hiroshima G7 statement, leaders of the world’s most advanced economies agreed on the need to The Rise of China as a Free Trade work together to face the risks of disruptions and Champion? to adhere to the rule of law. [...] comes to defending advanced technologies, there is not only a consensus about the need to keep Eyes on the Regional Growth advanced semiconductors and chip manufacturing Challenge equipment from China, but also a shared understanding of the need to be the pioneers in Confronting the China challenge may be one of establishing the rules of advanced technology the few issues that continues to unite t. [...] In the case of Australia, to date has been the alignment of Japan and Chinese retaliation in 2020 against Canberra’s the Netherlands with the United States in the call for an independent inquiry into the origins export control of advanced semiconductor of COVID-19 only shaved off overall Australian manufacturing technology from October 2022.