000			01812cam a2200157 4500
100	1		_aINSISA Aurelio
700			_aPUGLIESE Giulio
245			_aThe free and open Indo-Pacific versus the belt and road: _bspheres of influence and Sino-Japanese relations/ _cAurelio Insisa & Giulio Pugliese
260			_c2022
520			_aRecent scholarship suggests that the thawing of diplomatic relations between China and Japan has caused a readjustment of Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative and Tokyo's Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision towards an emerging complementarity. Through careful process-tracking, elite interviews, and analysis of Chinese and Japanese primary sources, this article instead demonstrates how, outside of the East Asian spotlight, Sino-Japanese geo-economic competition continues in South Asia and the Mekong subregion, fueled by power politics and a mutual distrust of each other's initiatives. On the basis of this evidence, this article qualifies Sino-Japanese interactions as a quest and denial for spheres of influence, whereas the Japanese government aims at denying Chinese spheres of influence. In doing so, this article highlights how Japanese proactivism from Sri Lanka to Thailand, via infrastructure and government financing, has become a driver of growing non-traditional security cooperation with India, the U.S., and Australia.
650			_aBELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE _xECONOMIC STATECRAFT _xFREE AND OPEN INDO-PACIFIC _zJAPAN-CHINA _zMEKONG _xQUAD _xSPHERES OF INFLUENCE _zSRI LANKA
773			_aThe Pacific Review : _gVol. 35, No 3, May 2022, pp. 557-585 (103)
598			_aSASIA, JAPAN, CHINA, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, POLICY, EASTASIA, ASIAN, INDO-PAC
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09512748.2020.1862899 _zClick here for full text
945			_i67452-1001 _rY _sY
999			_c41506 _d41506