The Lowy Institute report ranks Japan as the third most powerful country in Asia, with India following in fourth place and shows the pandemic has slowed China's rise over the last two years.
abc.net.au/news/us-asia-most-powerful-country-china-lowy-institute/101928692New analysis has found the United States remains the most powerful country in Asia, while China's strength has been eroded by its strict COVID-19 lockdowns and border closures.The report ranks Japan as the third most powerful country in Asia, followed by India in fourth place and Russia in fifth
The 2022 report ranks Japan as the third most powerful country in Asia after the United States and China. India follows in fourth place, while Russia is ranked fifth, followed by Australia, South Korea, Singapore and Indonesia. The project lead for the Asia Power Index, Susannah Patton, said China's diplomatic influence in Asia narrowly eclipsed that of the United States in 2022, partly because Beijing had wooed most countries across the region more assiduously than the Biden administration had.
"We saw a sharp decline in China's connectivity and connections with the rest of Asia because when its borders were closed it wasn't having the same level of people exchanges, cultural exchanges ties between businesses," she told the ABC."We saw investment to and from China drop off as well during that period. So that's really sharply curtailed China's economic influence, as well as its soft power.
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