Yokohama, Japan, a week-long APEC APEC, Sunday (Nov. 14) afternoon to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, issued a "Summit Declaration" announced the summit closed. Week to focus on economic issues on the surface, in fact, hidden areas of Sino-US competition for political and economic dominance of the 21 States party to end.
After starting on Sunday of the meeting of national affairs and the basis of the Council of Ministers to finalize the issue, closing the summit on Sunday, four papers were published, including the "Summit Declaration", "Summit Declaration", "APEC summit's growth strategy" , "Toward the Asia-Pacific free trade circles (ATAAP) of the Road", the Asia-Pacific regional trade, investment, environmental protection, anti-terrorism, disaster prevention and other economic and trade issues as the center of a compromise formulation.
China and the U.S. from South Korea 20 financial summit of the RMB exchange rate began to debate extends to the Yokohama summit of 21 Asia-Pacific region during the next trade is to the open market, the direction of exemption from customs duties to promote the debate continues.
Japan to change its position
The United States has always maintained an open market free of duty, but the attitude of China and Japan are more negative.
However, since the recent collision of Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu Islands occurred, the Chinese Rare Earth exports to Japan to stop the trade and means of strengthening the general clearance of goods in retaliation for Japan, the Japanese changed his mind.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan in October that Japan intends to join in the Congress, "Pacific Partnership Agreement" (TPP) of the intention, Naoto Kan, Japan's Meiji Restoration, this has been described as "the third founding."
Although the Japanese farmers, livestock has always been fierce public opposition to join any free trade agreement, Japanese politicians have also been concerns about the peasants of the vote, avoiding the "Free Trade Agreement" (FTP), but the Japanese business community to actively promote Kan regime to Japan at the summit TPP statement added. The largest economic sector organizations - Keidanren, said Hiromasa Yonekura, president, joined or not life or death of the Japanese economy.
Summit, Naoto Kan talks with U.S. President Barack Obama, adding that Japan intends to TPP, specific actions in support of the United States to improve the U.S. military stationed in Okinawa Japan and the U.S. due to the airport due to disharmony between the transfer dispute. Naoto Kan also the APEC summit in economic circles that the intention to join, causing days of the summit outside the farmers, livestock demonstrations tide people.
Do not want to offend the United States
Naoto Kan, for the first time in Parliament that the intention of joining TPP, the Japanese Ministry of Economy to spread news that negotiations with Japan over trade relations between conversational call to ask Japanese Chinese officials are "really want to join this agreement." The news immediately caused outside attention.
Before the opening of the summit, the Obama speech in the business community to advocate adding TPP summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the same occasion, the speech made no mention of TPP in contrast, indicates that the summit of the controversy.
"Asahi Shimbun" Sunday analysis that led the Chinese TPP vigilant in developed countries, hoping to lay the first ASEAN Plus China, Japan and South Korea in a unified framework for economic dominance.
The results, Kan-US confrontation in the position of compromise, "Summit Declaration" to give the Japanese had joined the "2020 Asia-Pacific free trade area (FTAAP)" program. At the meeting there is news that the national and regional heads of China and the U.S. do not want to offend any party. "Asahi Shimbun," said Japan hopes the summit can only be envisaged to develop strategies to nothing.
However, Naoto Kan, Obama promised to be held next November in Hawaii conclusion of the APEC summit TPP approach. But in a press conference after the closing of the summit, for the domestic economic sector and the agriculture, animal husbandry opposition, Naoto Kan promises "the founding of agricultural reform and parallel."
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