'Calibrating China Ties – Japan' with CWP alum Ja Ian Chong and Ayumi Teraoka
In this episode, Ian Chong, a nonresident scholar with Carnegie China, discusses how Japan seeks to navigate its complex economic and security ties with the People’s Republic of China. Japan’s economy has become deeply integrated with that of the PRC over decades of globalization and cooperation remains important, but mounting concerns about coercion, pressure, and tension over regional territorial disputes are currently driving a more cautious Japanese approach.
Joining Ian are two specialists on Japan. Aikira Igata is director of the Economic Security Research Program and project lecturer at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology with the University of Tokyo. Ayumi Teraoka is a fellow with the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program and an incoming assistant professor at the Brandeis University.
Chong Ja Ian is a nonresident scholar at Carnegie China, Carnegie’s East Asia-based research center on contemporary China, where he examines U.S.-China dynamics in Southeast Asia and the broader Asia-Pacific. Chong is also an associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2008 and previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research covers the intersection of international and domestic politics, with a focus on the externalities of major power competition, nationalism, regional order, security, contentious politics, and state formation. He also works on U.S.-China relations, security and order in Northeast and Southeast Asia, cross-strait relations, and Taiwan’s politics.
Ayumi Teraoka is Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. Previously, she was an America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on coercive diplomacy, alliance politics in the Indo-Pacific, and Japanese foreign policy and national security. Her current book project, Strategy of Alliance Management: Procedural Autonomy in U.S.-China Competition, examines the interactive effects of U.S. alliance management efforts and China’s attempts to weaken U.S. alliances from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Her writing has appeared in PS: Political Science & Politics, Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs, The Japan Times, and Foreign Policy, among others. She is a past recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including Princeton University’s A.B. Krongard fellowship, the Lynde and Harry Bradley fellowship, and the Smith Richardson Foundation’s World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship.
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