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(回答先: マレーシア首相「東アジアＦＴＡ急務」・アジアの未来（NIKKEI NET） 投稿者 gataro 日時 2006 年 5 月 27 日 18:56:43)
Asian leaders fear Japan-China arms race（THE AGE）
Email Print Normal font Large font By Deborah Cameron, Tokyo
May 26, 2006
ASIAN leaders warn that an arms race fuelled by the rift between Japan and China could threaten plans for a regional economic community.
"Our economics is pushing us in one direction, but our politics is pulling us in another," Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said in Tokyo yesterday.
The tensions between Tokyo and Beijing, at their worst in 30 years, prompted blunt words from Mr Badawi and caused the Philippines ambassador to Japan to raise the spectre of a future atomic arms race if Japan, like China, became a nuclear power.
The former US ambassador to Korea, Thomas Hubbard, who is now a private-sector adviser on Asia, also said that Japan and China were moving further apart.
China's ambassador to Japan, Wang Yi, said that the state of the China-Japan relationship was so bad that "we should go back to the starting point" 34 years ago when the two signed an agreement to normalise diplomacy.
China and Japan, whose current leaders have never had a summit meeting, should be able to discuss their disputes, Mr Yi said, implying that it was Japan and not China that was the stumbling block.
Until there were discussions, "we cannot clearly see the future of the bilateral relationship", he said.
Mr Badawi, at a conference to map out Asian economic integration, took the unusual step of criticising Japan on its home turf to an audience of about 1000 people who listened in total silence. Regional solidarity had been "seriously dented" and it was the fault of Japan and China, he said.
When Tokyo and Beijing pulled in different directions "we will all suffer the consequences", he said. "The repercussions will be even more disastrous if some of our actions result in the undermining of the East Asia Community initiative that we nurtured and launched together. We must put an end to this unhealthy slide in our relations."
If they could not resolve it, then China and Japan "should at least attempt" moderation in the interests of regional peace and stability.
"China, as a giant economy, and still growing, has given rise to certain apprehensions," Mr Badawi said. "It has led many regional countries to believe that China is becoming a threat. This will affect our relationships with China. This will lead to unnecessary hedging against China."
The Philippines ambassador, Domingo Siazon, said that rivalry between Japan and China could lead to greater defence spending and ignite a regional arms race, soaking up money that might otherwise relieve poverty.
The Japan-China relationship is in tatters because of a history of war and brutal colonial occupation by Japan which, China believes, Japan has never been honest about or truly sorry for. Japan says that its repeated apologies, generous financial aid and growing business ties are proof of its sincerity.
The dispute's most inflammatory symbol, the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, is loathed by China because it honours 13 executed war criminals along with other war dead.
Japanese political leaders including Prime Minister Junichiri Koizumi continue to pay homage at the shrine and contend that it is none of China's business.
This week, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing repeated criticism of Mr Koizumi's visits to the shrine, saying they were an obstacle to improving strained relations.
With REUTERS
マレーシア紙の報道
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/5/26/nation/14352601&sec=nation
East Asia bloc under threat
By WONG SAI WAN in Tokyo
THE formation of the East Asian Community under the East Asia Summit banner is now in jeopardy due to the lack of cohesion among member countries who seem to have forgotten the lessons of the 1997 financial crisis.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said that while East Asian nations could be proud of the progress achieved, the concept of a single community was at a critical juncture.
“The unifying impulse of the Asian financial crisis appears to have lost some of its momentum. New anxieties and doubts have developed. Some of us appear to be tugging in different directions,” Abdullah said in his keynote address titled Challenges on the way to an East Asian Community at the 12th Nikkei International Conference on the Future of Asia here yesterday.
Of the many challenges in forming a single community for the region, Abdullah said there were three which were the “most crucial and most urgent”.
He labelled them the Challenges of Cohesion, Challenges of Conviction and Challenges of Implementation.
On cohesion, he cited Japan's worsening relations with China and South Korea, as an example of threats to the vision of a single regional community.
“I am afraid I have to be candid and say that the situation has worsened. Our economics are pushing us in one direction, but our politics are pulling us in another.”
Abdullah added that East Asia must be careful not to regress to the time when Asia was divided and carved up “at the whims and fancies of others.”
On the second challenge, he said countries must give their full conviction to the vision.
Asean must not only be the driver of the East Asia community but also its engine, said Abdullah.
He added that the Asean+3 (China, Japan and South Korea) set-up should be considered the vehicle.
On the challenge of implementation, he said cohesion and conviction would count for nothing if the plans drawn up were not implemented.
He cited plans to alleviate poverty in the region as an example of a programme that had not been implemented well.
Another programme that suffered a similar fate was the formation of an East Asia free trade area, said Abdullah.
“We should make greater effort to consolidate and link the many bilateral and sub-regional FTAs that we already have.
“A region-wide FTA that creates a market of almost two billion people will be the largest in the world.
“Once established, it will be the most impressive achievement yet of cooperation and community building in East Asia.”
Later during a dialogue, Abdullah was asked to suggest a solution to the strained ties between Tokyo and Beijing as well as Seoul.
He said he could not suggest how the issue could be resolved but stressed that the differences should not affect the single community vision.
何をとち狂ったかはたまた誤報か ―― 中曽根氏「『冬のソナタ』が東アジア共同体の統一をもたらす」って？？！！
'Winter Sonata' unites East Asian community（New Straits Times）
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Friday/National/20060526080416/Article/index_html
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