Japan, economic security and a Taiwan contingency with Meia Nouwens, Martijn Rasser and Mariko Togashi

In this month’s episode of Japan Memo, Yuka Koshino is joined by Martijn Rasser, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for New American Security, Meia Nouwens, IISS Senior Fellow for Chinese Defence Policy and Military Modernisation, and Mariko Togashi, Matsumoto-Samata Research Fellow for Japanese Security and Defence Policy at the IISS.

Yuka, Martijn, Meia and Mariko provide US, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese and European perspectives on their respective geoeconomic landscape and economic security policy; their views towards and preparations for a Taiwan contingency in the context of economic security; and offer their assessment of potential national and multilateral responses to such a contingency.

Topics discussed include:

• The economic security policies of the US, China, Taiwan and Japan
• US, Chinese, and Japanese views on the impact of a Taiwan contingency on economic security
• The global and regional semiconductor landscape and its impact on reactions to tensions in the Taiwan Strait
• A potential sanctions regime against China in a case of Taiwan contingency

The following literature is recommended by our guests to gain a clearer picture of the topics discussed:

• ‘Rich Nation, Strong Army’ by Richard J. Samuels
• ‘Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present’ by June Teufel Dreyer
• ‘China and Japan: Facing History’ by Ezra Vogel
• ‘自衛隊最高幹部が語る台湾有事’ /岩田 清文 ,武居 智久, 尾上 定正, 兼原 信克 (‘JSDF Top Executives Talk About Taiwan Contingency’ by Iwata Kiyofumi, Takei Tomohisa, Oue Sadamasa and Kanehara Nobukatsu)

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Date of Recording: 10 November 2022

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