美日在东南亚地区能源基础设施建设合作:举措、动因与制约因素

U.S.-Japan Cooperation in Southeast Asian Energy Infrastructure:Measures,Dynamics,and Constraints

近年来,美日两国通过建立战略能源伙伴关系,搭建对话机制,启动基建融资和项目合作,加强基建规则磋商等方式,在东南亚能源基建领域展开了合作。美日在东南亚地区的能源基建合作,除了各自的经济利益算盘和战略考量外,对冲中国“一带一路”倡议影响、应对“中国挑战”,无疑是最主要推动力。然而,美日各自不同的经济诉求,日本对“一带一路”倡议的微妙态度以及东南亚能源基建市场本身的不确定性,对未来美日合作将投下长长阴影,前景并不明朗。

U.S.and Japan have been cooperating meaningfully in Southeast Asian energy infrastructure in recent years,by means of building U.S.-Japan Strategic Energy Partnership,conducting dialogues between functional agencies,initiating development financing cooperation and joint project,and coordinating infrastructure projects rules by formulating Blue Dot Network.Besides economic and strategic motivations,U.S.-Japan cooperation is mainly driven by their common desire to balance the perceived rising China challenge,especially in the form of Belt and Road Initiative.However,the prospects of U.S.-Japan energy infrastructure cooperation in Southeast Asia are still clouded in much uncertainty due to the diverse economic considerations,Japan’s changing attitudes towards BRI,and the flux in the Southeast Asian energy infrastructure market.