{"id":52440,"date":"2019-12-10T11:54:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=52440"},"modified":"2019-12-10T11:54:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:54:46","slug":"tensions-over-future-international-order-on-display-at-tokyo-global-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/tensions-over-future-international-order-on-display-at-tokyo-global-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensions over future international order on display at Tokyo Global Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The inaugural Tokyo Global Dialogue<\/a> took place on 2 and 3 December to mark the founding of the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA), by Shigeru Yoshida, who served as the country\u2019s prime minister from 1946\u201347 and again from 1948\u201354.<\/p>\n

The track 1.5 event gathered together an array of regional and international experts from government, think tanks and academia to debate the proposition: \u2018Is it possible to build an international order based on free, fair and transparent rules?\u2019 Speakers included Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi as well as leading defence and foreign policy specialists from around the globe.<\/p>\n

The 700 participants hotly debated the nature of international order. On the headline issue of a \u2018free, fair and transparent\u2019 international order there were naturally divergent views from the parties involved. There was strong consensus that the \u2018liberal international order\u2019 championed by the West and spread more widely across the globe in the post\u2013Cold War \u2018unipolar moment\u2019 was under siege from within and without.<\/p>\n

Western-held values such as democracy, human rights, multilateralism and free trade that in many ways underpinned the globalisation process are now challenged by \u2018revisionist\u2019 authoritarian states led by China and Russia, with others such as Iran and North Korea also prolific irritants to this order. Evidence of this is to be found in heightened Sino-US strategic and economic rivalry, the collapse of arms-control regimes (such as the INF Treaty<\/a>) and simmering turmoil in global hot spots such as the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The liberal international order is also being hollowed out from within, with its key Western champions losing faith in their core values in the face of rising economic inequalities, and undermined domestically by populist and anti-globalisation movements, lending support for international isolationism and protectionism. The political disarray of the US and the Brexit process in the UK are stark evidence of this.<\/p>\n

These trends are being exacerbated by the prevalence of disruptive digital technologies including social media, leading to \u2018fake news\u2019, cyber warfare and interference operations; as well as the employment of advanced surveillance technologies to control public opinion in authoritarian states. The actions of the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang and Hong Kong came in for strong criticism from some participants, \u00a0which a Chinese respondent countered were clearly the work of an American \u2018black hand\u2019.<\/p>\n

For an international symposium held in Northeast Asia, the concept of the \u2018Indo-Pacific\u2019 was point of particular contention, as the US and its allies seek to advance their \u2018free and open Indo-Pacific\u2019 (FOIP) initiative to address territorial and international legal disputes, safeguard the maritime commons, and deal with issues of infrastructure development and connectivity. The US and its allies advocated that the principles of \u2018free, fair and transparent\u2019 behaviour were the best way to counter the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which seeks to expand strategic control across parts of Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean and South Pacific.<\/p>\n

There was also debate in Tokyo around the genuine inclusivity<\/em> of the FOIP since authoritarian powers would not only have to radically adjust their existing policies to conform with the liberal principles that are embedded in it, but also because they are presently concentrating on alternative governance structures to facilitate their own preferred institutions, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and BRI. Thus we can discern two competing orders\u2014the Western liberal democratic one and the authoritarian alternative led by rising powers. The future international order will be shaped by the tension between these two antithetical visions.<\/p>\n

While the US and its allies were adamant that their liberal international order had served the world well in terms of bringing peace and prosperity, they recognised that more needed to be done to restore trust in a system that was certainly \u2018good\u2019 but not \u2018perfect\u2019. In this respect, both domestic and international (multilateral) governance needed rethinking and reforming to adapt to a new era, as outlined at the dialogue by Motegi.<\/p>\n

Even the Western participants were divided on whether it was possible to maintain the liberal order globally, or whether it would simply revert to a \u2018bounded order\u2019 that encompassed only the democratic powers. Outside of this community those powers would be confronted by an external operating environment in which their values and norms held lesser sway. One outspoken Chinese participant left little doubt that this non-democratic condominium would be presided over by a triumphant China.<\/p>\n

Overall, the Tokyo Global Dialogue sought to fulfil two objectives according to JIIA President and former ambassador Kenichiro Sasae: to open free and frank discussion on the problems of an unstable international order, and to step up efforts by JIIA to research and disseminate timely analysis on such matters. This initial gathering made an admirable contribution to both these missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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