Japan’s Grand Strategy Amid Geopolitical Flux

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Fulcrum editor William Choong talks to Kei Koga about Japan’s grand strategy and approach to the Indo-Pacific amid challenges to the global rules-based order. Prof Koga is Associate Professor and Head of Division at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

Fulcrum editor William Choong talks to Kei Koga about Japan’s grand strategy and approach to the Indo-Pacific amid challenges to the global rules-based order. Prof Koga is Associate Professor and Head of Division at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

Dialogues at Fulcrum is a podcast published by the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. For quick reference, the themes below were discussed:

4:20 – Japan’s grand strategy towards the Indo-Pacific?

10:30 – How the disruption to the rule-based order is affecting Japan and Southeast Asia

15:20 – Adapting to a “world minus one” system

19:30 – The future trajectory of the US-Japan alliance

27:00 – PM Takaichi’s polite “no” to Trump on the Gulf

30:30 – Japan and the future of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (is it dead?)

36:45 – Systemic factors behind ructions in Sino-Japanese relations

43:40 – The issue of history in Sino-Japanese relations

Kei Koga is Associate Professor and Head of Division at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is concurrently a Nonresident Fellow at the National Bureau of Asia Research (NBR), an independent research institution based in Seattle and Washington, D.C.