Zhang Jingwei: The East Asian Series Summit looks at the changes in the influence of t

Current affairs perspective

A series of East Asian cooperation leaders were held in Thailand. This year, the US President Trump was not seen, and even Vice President Pence did not attend the meeting.At the Asianan -American Summit, the US representative was Robert Middot; Oppite; Obrich, which was just taking office, was not even a Secretary of State Pompeo.

Perhaps, Trump and Pence are absent for domestic affairs (dealing with elections and facing impeachment), but the impression is that the United States ignores the Asian East Asian region in the United States.Before that, the new Emperor of Japan was celebrating, and American guests were only ministerial Chinese Zhao Xiaolan.This is easy to make people associate, and the United States does not pay attention to Japan. How can it favors Asia?

The United States withdraws from the cross -Pacific partnership Agreement (TPP) including Japan and the Asian and Asian Dimetry, which is equivalent to abandoning the geopolitics of the Obama era (Asia -Pacific rebalancing) and geographical economic strategy.The United States is pursuing the naked interests first, that is, the United States prioritize the trade war and demand security premiums.Japan, South Korea, NATO, the European Union, Canada, etc. have been extorted by the Trump administration, and the relationship between the United States and traditional allies is unprecedentedly bad.The United States ignored the East Asian series summit, and it was logical.

The United States ignores the norm of the allies, and Japan and Asia have also learned to adapt.In response, the Voice of Germany Chinese website 揶揄 the United States has put the Asian pigeons in the United States; the Associated Press bluntly stated that the absence of the first three hands of the White House allowed India, Japan, especially Chinese leaders to leave the vacuum that can be filled.The neglected Asianan countries are also colored.

At the Asian -US Summit, Oboan read Trump's personal letter and invited Asian leaders to participate in the Special Summit at the beginning of the year.However, in addition to the host Thailand, as well as the national leaders of Vietnam and Laos attended the meeting, the other seven countries of Asia sent the Foreign Minister.In short, the Asianan country in many ways to respond to the contempt of the United States at the venue in a level -to -level way.

In the past, the East Asian Series Summit was an important place for the United States to provoke anti -China issues.Today, China and Asians, as well as Japan, Australia, South Korea, India, and New Zealand.After seven years of difficult negotiations, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) has completed all text negotiations and essentially all market access negotiations.Trade zone.RCEP is desperate, and it is also a metaphor for changes in the influence of China and the United States.

Although RCEP is led by Asianian, China is promoted. Compared with the US -led TPP, the TPP members of Japan and Asia's TPP are not active in RCEP.On the one hand, the level of TPP free trade is higher, and on the other hand, it is added to the US -led TPP, which is more in line with the vision of Japan and related Asia -to -Asians.More importantly, Japan must use the United States to check and balance China; Asianian's influence on China's strategic influence is still doubtful, especially when the sovereignty of the South China islands is controversial.

In the United States withdraw from TPP, although Japan leads the promotion of a narrow version of TPP (Cross -Pacific Partnership Comprehensive Progress Agreement, referred to as CPTPP), TPP, which is known as a comprehensive progress, has shrunk sharply in terms of regional influence.In this situation, RCEP also began to re -get the attention of Japan and Asia's sidelines.Compared with the TPP of the 16 countries, the overall strength is better than the TPP of the 12 countries, although RCEP is slightly lower at the level of free trade.

As China, India, South Korea, etc. have joined, the scope of regional integration of RCEP has also expanded from Asia -Pacific to India. Even if India finally exits, RCEP is no less than the TPP destroyed by the United States in terms of promoting regional economic integration.The deconstruction of TPP and the construction of RCEP highlight that the United States is the destroyer of the regional economic integration, and China is a builder.

After the game of superimposed the scientific and technological war between the Sino -US trade war, China and the United States have become the world's unique power.While the United States has become a symbol of trade protectionism and unilateralism, it has also regarded Chinese arch as a leader of globalized maintenanceers and multilateralism.As a result, the top three in the United States were absent from the negotiation results of the East Asian series and RCEP, highlighting the rise of China and the United States in Asia and East Asia.

China's influence is increasing, and US influence is declining.In the tap and retreat of the two strongs and the United States, it also highlights the strategic changes in the East Asian region in East Asia in the broad sense.Although the United States still has unparalleled geopolitical influence in East Asia, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and the United States in the Asian League of Asians still regard the United States as the leader and hope to strengthen the relationship between the United States.

The reality is cruel. The United States in the Trump era still pursued the United States priority, and the responsibility of the alliance began to vulgar and utilitarian.The continuous retirement of the United States has shown that this world's only superpower, unwilling to assume more regions and global responsibilities.Although this is related to Trump's political personality, the root cause is the long -term contradictions accumulated by the United States for a long time, so that it has to give priority to internal affairs and external refund groups+debt collection.

In order to appease the Asia -Pacific allies, the United States drew an unrealistic geopolitical circle MDASH; mdash; expanded the Asia -Pacific to Indo -Pacific.However, the first three in the United States to lack the East Asian series summit, it is difficult to prove that the United States attaches importance to East Asia and Asia.The so -called Indo -Pacific strategy has also become a painting cake given by the United States.

The improvement of Sino -Japanese relations, Asianan no longer chooses the border between China and the United States and the results of RCEP, highlighting the new changes of the influence of China and the United States.

The author is a senior researcher at the China Chahar Society

Passenger researcher at Renmin University of China Chongyang Financial Research Institute