IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-137-01105-3_12.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Japan’s View on Cross-Strait Developments

In: National Identity and Economic Interest

Author

Listed:
  • June Teufel Dreyer

Abstract

Given Japan’s substantial business interests in Taiwan and its contested territorial waters with China, the Tokyo government has viewed the closer relationship between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China with some apprehension. The integration of the economies of the two areas has the potential to adversely impact Japanese business interests. The Ma adminis- tration’s declaration that the contested waters are part of the Republic of China has added to these concerns. The United States is committed to help Japan defend its jurisdiction over the contested Diaoyutai/Senkaku islands, claimed by the PRC. In addition, a clause in the U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty calls for Japanese cooperation in the defense of the surrounding waters (shuhen jitai), which all sides understand to include the waters around Taiwan. At the same time, China is Japan’s leading trading partner, with its leadership acutely aware that the PRC is a major factor in maintaining the country’s economic prosperity. This chapter will explore Japan’s efforts to calibrate its relation- ship with Taiwan in order to maximize its economic gains while minimizing security risks.

Suggested Citation

  • June Teufel Dreyer, 2012. "Japan’s View on Cross-Strait Developments," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter C. Y. Chow (ed.), National Identity and Economic Interest, chapter 0, pages 283-298, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-01105-3_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137011053_12
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-01105-3_12. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.