The trust deficit in Sino-Japanese relations

Rose, Caroline; Sýkora, Jan

doi:10.1080/09555803.2016.1227353

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“…This research can be seen as an expansion to one study to date that has looked at China and Japan through the trust lens. According to Rose and Sýkora (2017), the failure to establish a trusting relationship between China and Japan could be traced back to the 1980s when various trust properties were missing at both the leadership and popular levels. The authors argue that since the diplomatic normalization, despite efforts to improve bilateral relations, Chinese and Japanese leaderships have been caught in a downward spiral of trust.…”

Section: Why China and Japan?mentioning

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State-to-state Trust in Post-leadership Change: Case Study of China-Japan Relations, 2009-2019

Kong¹

2022

Preprint

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The concept of trust underlies an important part of various theories in International Relations, but is yet to take roots in the mainstream research. To fill this gap in the literature, this study first reviews the dominant theories on trust in sociology and psychology, and then identifies the three main approaches to trust in world politics. In order to find the factors affecting state-to-state trust, the study tests the effects of leadership turnovers on the formation of trust or mistrust between two states. In particular, the empirical research focuses on the relations between China and Japan under different leaderships from 2009 and 2019. It uses an original dataset of high-level Sino-Japanese diplomatic activities and talk content from 2009 to 2019, as extracted from the Chinese newspaper People’s Daily as well as the websites of the ministries of foreign affairs of both China and Japan. The findings highlight how interstate mistrust is likely to endure different leadership changes whereas interstate trust is unlikely to be inherited so easily between leaderships. Trust between China and Japan is found to be highly contextual and dependent on the core state interests and the political actors involved. Mutual trust, if established, can move the relationship beyond the commercial realm and into more strategic area. The study contributes not just empirical evidences on the role of trust in interstate interactions but also a systematic method to assessing such interactions.

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State-to-state Trust in Post-leadership Change: Case Study of China-Japan Relations, 2009-2019

Kong¹

2022

Preprint

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“…Pergerakan separatis dengan berbagai perjuangannya untuk kemerdekaan telah berkumandang pula di beberapa wilayah negara Asia Tenggara seperti Papua-Indonesia, Mindanao-Filipina, Patani-Thailand Selatan dengan Thailand, Rohingnya-Myanmar (Miller, 2012). Sengketa lain di Asia Pasifik muncul juga akibat disharmonisasi dan kecurigaan antarnegara tetangga, serta menghinggapi pola pikir (mindset) masyarakat dan pemerintah negara seperti, antara Korea Selatan-Korea Utara, Cina-Jepang, Kamboja-Vietnam, serta Australia-Indonesia (Dziedzic, 2022;Han-bum, 2016;Rose & Sýkora, 2017;Vireak, 2020). Ragam masalah tersebut menjadi persoalan utama negaranegara di dunia dan juga organisasi yang ada dalam satu kawasan.…”

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Asia Pasifik Memanas, Ancamankah bagi ASEAN dan Indonesia?

Armawi

Wijatmoko²

2022

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Kajian ini bertujuan menganalisis dinamika lingkungan strategi keamanan di Asia Pasifik dan dampaknya terhadap negara-negara ASEAN serta Indonesia. Sebuah persaingan kekuatan yang ada di kawasan ini menggambarkan teori empat pilar kekuatan milik Bernard S. Cohen yang mempengaruhi transformasi arsitektur geopolitik pertahanan dan keamanan antara AS dan Cina. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif dan sintesa yang berarti perpaduan antara pola berpikir sistematis dan deskripsi dari beberapa permasalahan. Melalui penelitian ini, dapat disimpulkan bahwa, pertama, terjadi transformasi arsitektur geopolitik pertahanan dan keamanan kawasan Asia Pasifik. Kedua, setidaknya Cina dan 4 negara ASEAN yaitu Vietnam, Filipina, Malaysia dan Brunei Darussalam terlibat dalam sengketa di wilayah Laut Cina Selatan yang memiliki potensi sumber daya alam serta berkaitan dengan kepentingan ekonomi global. Ketiga, sengketa yang terjadi di Laut Cina Selatan mendorong terjadinya potensi eskalasi keamanan di kawasan maritim Indonesia. Untuk itu, kekuatan Angkatan Laut Indonesia seharusnya dapat dioptimalkan demi membangun keamanan maritim Indonesia.

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“…The resumption of intensive summit diplomacy -highlighted by Abe's 2018 official visit to Beijing and Xi's possible state visit − and the unveiling of Japan-China third-party market cooperation are cases in point (Sahashi, 2020;Hosoya, 2019). Other authors have also qualified Japan's engagement, at best, as a strategic contrast (Wallace, 2019), marred by ongoing mutual mistrust (Rose & Sýkora, 2017).…”

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The free and open Indo-Pacific versus the belt and road: spheres of influence and Sino-Japanese relations

Insisa

Pugliese

2020

The Pacific Review

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Recent scholarship suggests that the thawing of diplomatic relations between China and Japan has caused a readjustment of Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative and Tokyo's Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision towards an emerging complementarity. Through careful process-tracking, elite interviews, and analysis of Chinese and Japanese primary sources, this article instead demonstrates how, outside of the East Asian spotlight, Sino-Japanese geo-economic competition continues in South Asia and the Mekong subregion, fueled by power politics and a mutual distrust of each other's initiatives. On the basis of this evidence, this article qualifies Sino-Japanese interactions as a quest and denial for spheres of influence, whereas the Japanese government aims at denying Chinese spheres of influence. In doing so, this article highlights how Japanese proactivism from Sri Lanka to Thailand, via infrastructure and government financing, has become a driver of growing non-traditional security with India, the U.S., and Australia.

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The trust deficit in Sino-Japanese relations

Cited by 11 publications

References 19 publications

State-to-state Trust in Post-leadership Change: Case Study of China-Japan Relations, 2009-2019

State-to-state Trust in Post-leadership Change: Case Study of China-Japan Relations, 2009-2019

Asia Pasifik Memanas, Ancamankah bagi ASEAN dan Indonesia?

The free and open Indo-Pacific versus the belt and road: spheres of influence and Sino-Japanese relations

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