[ La course au leadership régional entre la Chine et le Japon: enjeux et perspectives ]
Volume 20, Issue 4, July 2017, Pages 1116–1131
ETOYI ESELA Fidèle1, Jean Ives Célé EJIBA NGOY WALUBO2, and Aimé NKOMB KAYEB3
1 Chef de Travaux, Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
2 Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
3 Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The rise of the Chinese economy seems to be a great challenge to the regionalization of Japan in Asia. Despite the regional leadership race between Japan and China is in South and East Asia, the two economies are interdependent. China seems to intend to impose itself as an economic hegemon in the region. The rise of China over the last thirty years, since the beginning of the reform era in 1978, is certainly unusual in its magnitude and scale, bridging its gap through trade. The two countries are major economic partners with trade representing nearly $ 312 billion in 2013. But relations between the second economy (Communist China) and the third world economy (Japan) have deteriorated over the last two years. China and Japan maintain contradictory relations between economic interdependence and political tensions in the region of South-East Asia. These two states seek only one thing, to impose their leadership. The relationship between China, a multi-millennial civilization that has influenced the whole of the Far East, and the Japanese archipelago, which has received this cultural influence from the first Chief, has a history marked by incessant exchanges and rivalries. For decades, Japan was the undisputed first Asian power. Today, Japanese leadership is being questioned by China, which tends to take off and assert itself as a great regional and international power. The emergence of China over the past two decades has undoubtedly ranked it among the key players on the international scene. But this rise of the empire of the milieu in the contemporary world raises concerns: upsetting strategic balances, redefining economic rules, questioning the democratic system as the only system able of bringing prosperity, New military power.
Author Keywords: Japan, China, Regionalization, Emergence, Leadership.
Volume 20, Issue 4, July 2017, Pages 1116–1131
ETOYI ESELA Fidèle1, Jean Ives Célé EJIBA NGOY WALUBO2, and Aimé NKOMB KAYEB3
1 Chef de Travaux, Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
2 Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
3 Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The rise of the Chinese economy seems to be a great challenge to the regionalization of Japan in Asia. Despite the regional leadership race between Japan and China is in South and East Asia, the two economies are interdependent. China seems to intend to impose itself as an economic hegemon in the region. The rise of China over the last thirty years, since the beginning of the reform era in 1978, is certainly unusual in its magnitude and scale, bridging its gap through trade. The two countries are major economic partners with trade representing nearly $ 312 billion in 2013. But relations between the second economy (Communist China) and the third world economy (Japan) have deteriorated over the last two years. China and Japan maintain contradictory relations between economic interdependence and political tensions in the region of South-East Asia. These two states seek only one thing, to impose their leadership. The relationship between China, a multi-millennial civilization that has influenced the whole of the Far East, and the Japanese archipelago, which has received this cultural influence from the first Chief, has a history marked by incessant exchanges and rivalries. For decades, Japan was the undisputed first Asian power. Today, Japanese leadership is being questioned by China, which tends to take off and assert itself as a great regional and international power. The emergence of China over the past two decades has undoubtedly ranked it among the key players on the international scene. But this rise of the empire of the milieu in the contemporary world raises concerns: upsetting strategic balances, redefining economic rules, questioning the democratic system as the only system able of bringing prosperity, New military power.
Author Keywords: Japan, China, Regionalization, Emergence, Leadership.
Abstract: (french)
La montée en puissance de l’économie chinoise parait être un grand défi à la régionalisation du Japon en Asie. Malgré la course au leadership régional entre le Japon et la Chine en Asie du Sud et de l’Est, les deux économies sont interdépendantes. La Chine semblerait-il entend s’imposer comme un hégémon économique dans la région. L’ascension de la Chine ces trente dernières années, depuis le début de l’ère des réformes en 1978, est certainement hors du commun par son ampleur et son échelle en comblant son retard à travers les échanges commerciaux. Les deux pays sont des partenaires économiques majeurs avec les échanges commerciaux représentant près de 312 milliards de dollars en 2013. Mais les relations entre la deuxième économie (la Chine communiste) et troisième économie mondiale (le Japon) se sont dégradées ces deux dernières années. La Chine et le Japon entretiennent, dans la région de l’Asie du sud est, des relations contradictoires entre interdépendance économique et crispations politiques. Ces deux Etats ne cherchent qu’une chose, à imposer leur leadership. Les relations entre la Chine, civilisation plurimillénaire ayant influencé tout l’Extrême Orient, et l’archipel du Japon, qui a reçu au premier Chef cette influence culturelle, ont une histoire marquée par des échanges et des rivalités incessantes. Durant des décennies, le Japon a été l’incontestable première puissance Asiatique. Aujourd’hui, le leadership japonais est remis en question par une Chine qui tend à prendre son envol et à s’affirmer comme une très grande puissance régionale et internationale. L’émergence de la Chine depuis une vingtaine d’années l’a indiscutablement inscrite parmi les acteurs incontournables de la scène internationale. Seulement, cette montée en puissance de l’Empire du milieu dans le monde contemporain suscite des inquiétudes : bouleversement des équilibres stratégiques, redéfinition des règles économiques, remise en cause du système démocratique comme seul système capable d’apporter la prospérité, apparition d’une nouvelle puissance militaire.
Author Keywords: Japon, Chine, Régionalisation, Emergence, Leadership.
How to Cite this Article
ETOYI ESELA Fidèle, Jean Ives Célé EJIBA NGOY WALUBO, and Aimé NKOMB KAYEB, “The Regional Leadership Race between China and Japan: Issues and Perspectives,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 1116–1131, July 2017.
