新亚太区域经济一体化方案与日本

New Asia-Pacific Economic Integration Plans and Japan

近年来,亚太地区出现两大互相竞争的一体化方案,即跨太平洋伙伴关系协定(TPP)和区域全面经济伙伴关系协定(RCEP),这印证了世界政治经济重心向亚太地区转移的观点。这两个规模巨大的自贸协定可能从根本上改变亚太地区乃至整个世界的经济贸易格局。日本作为亚洲第二、世界第三的经济体,期望最大限度地利用两个自贸协定,在解决自身经济问题的同时,强化其在亚洲乃至全球舞台上的经济和政治地位。为此日本力图在两个自贸协定中占据主导地位。这在很大程度上取决于中美两国在这两个自贸协定中的下一步走向以及日本如何处理与中美两大国的双边经贸和政治关系。日本认为,特朗普退出跨太平洋伙伴关系协定(TPP)的做法是错误的,因此敦促拜登政府重返该自贸协定。与此同时,日本对于中国申请加入全面与进步跨太平洋伙伴关系协定(CPTPP)持非常谨慎的态度。

The claim that the center of world economic and political life is moving to the Asia-Pacific region has been thoroughly reinforced over the past two and a half years in the form of two competing free trade agremants,namely the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership(CPTPP,formerly TPP)and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership(RCEP).Those two plans,due to their gigantic scale,in the future can radically change the trade and economic landscape not only in Asia,but also in the world as a whole.As the second largest economy in Asia and the third largest in the world,Japan expects to make the most of the two plans to solve its own economic problems while strengthening its economic and political position in Asia and on the global stage.So Japan attempts to take the lead in both plans,which will depend on the further course in relation to both integration megaprojects of China and the United States,as well as building its own bilateral trade,economic and political relations with both world powers.Japan sees Trump’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a mistake and has urged the Biden administration to return to the CPTPP.Meanwhile,Japan is very cautious about China joining the CPTPP.