“Nobody could accuse Abe of being faint of heart,” writes MrKRudd in an opinion essay. “He was a worthy adversary of Xi Jinping”
50 years, three Japanese leaders have become global leaders in their own right: Nakasone Yasuhiro ; Koizumi Junichiro and Abe Shinzo . Of these, history will view Abe as the most consequential. He transformed Japan’s post-war political identity, foreign policy role and strategic mission. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Abe’s response to the rise of China, whose challenge arguably became the organising principle of his prime ministership.
He also championed the Trans-Pacific Partnership , a high-quality trade agreement linking America, Japan and ten other significant regional market economies. This was a remarkable feat given Japan’s protectionist tradition.
Abe’s overarching strategy—adopted in part by the Biden administration—has been to change China’s international operating environment through a series of integrated economic, trade, development, foreign and security policy measures. He was not, however, a unilinear politician. Doubting Mr Trump’s long-term commitment to America’s allies, Abe reached out to Europe, India and Australia to help hold the democratic world together.
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