Thread - Why is Trump in Japan? (no pet pics this time :(
Lets discuss... Japan is countering China for control of infrastructure investment in South & Southeast Asia. Japan is optimizing its lending and increasing money available for "development assistance" to neighbors

Japan cannot stop China from using its brute force, yuan and its belligerent display of military and naval forces that threaten India on the seas in Western Indian Ocean/Djibouti and on land in Doklum. In the region, china wants ownership.
Japan's war is being fought by offering

.by supplying those middle-income countries w/top shelf infrastructure
This is the alternative to China's "Belt and Road Initiative" and would lessen their dependence on Chinese yuan/lending...

Abe call this the “infrastructure gap”. Trump and Abe are rescuing the region with a "friendly, but robust counter to China. This is how wars are fought...

Whereas China's diplomacy is"Wushi Zhuyi" (pragmatism) it is authoritarian and blended with Confuciusism. it is their continuing of a 70's strategy called “Three Worlds” 70s theory: Leader of 3rd World of Asia & Africa to oppose control of 1st World Russia (at that time) & US

Japan took a different route...Jt of foreign investment hey used development assistance as diplomacy to build a NON-communist Asia, this to strengthen its economy. It was their resolution to reparations -public-private investment in Asia’s developing countries...

It is their “flying geese paradigm” help its neighbors transition to more lucrative industrial sectors and, in the process, grow wealthier itself.

Is this crucial to American interests..."you betcha!"
In 2016, Japan’ investment in Asian economies (excluding China and Hong Kong) was nearly $260 billion, exceeding China’s $58.3 billion....

When China President Xi began the "Belt and Road Initiative" in 2013, Abe countered with a new approach to infrastructure investment as part of his “Abenomics” program...

This is vital to understand, it is the differne between a war and NOT a war...
Abe's “Quality” investment was devised by an advisory council = environmental/social impact/debt sustainability/safety and reliability of construction/impact on local employment/tech expertise.

In 2016 Abe unveiled “High-Quality Infrastructure Export Expansion Initiative.” Tokyo would 2x annual support for infrastructure exports to $1.8 billion in U.S. dollars.. and increase Nippon Export and Investment Insurance’s coverage for overseas projects to 100 percent.

Japanm despite Eu claims...is ACTUALLY the world’s third-largest economy (dont get me started on this one :) it is not a rejection of asia countries to China its alternative source of funding and set of principles. China does not play nice with is partners, fact...

Obama admin was having a brutal time keeping its allies from joining China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Congress, always busy on nothing, let the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s charter expire...not good

To Japan and India this is their "bilateral relationship".
"Abe likes India" and this is Japan as leader in the the Indo-Pacific. t is what Abe calls “Confluence of the Two Seas”
Abe helped India in its India’s northeast to counter aggression from the CHinese ( Doklam)

and for rail projects like the Mumbai to Ahmedabad train/subway projects/energy/sanitation/ and a connectivity to align Asia with the east coast of Africa through the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor

In 2017 Trump signed the BUILD for a US deveopment Finance Corporation (USIDFC) to streamline the management of development finance.

This allocated a jump from 29 billion that Obama got, to $60 billion to invest, (doesnt all go to Asian projects. China will invest more, countries prefer Japan and the US to fulfill resolving the "infrastructure gap"

Nigeria, Kenya and many local to China countries are figuring figuring out the risks/dangers of Chinese investment.
thats why Trump is in Asia.
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Oh, yeah, should say I did this quickly so lots of mistakes in spelling, etc, just wanted to crank it out before i go out for day (80 degrees in NYC...central park! Frisbee!

Ha, lastly i should say that i wrote this as I get asked about India and Africa a LOT so wanted to jot some notes down

Jeez, my spelling and sentences are lousy. I did it quickly...

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