Japan is using this week’s Ticad8 summit in Tunisia to lay down markers about Russia and China.
At a ministerial meeting in March to prepare for the summit, Japan firmlythat ‘Russia’s recent aggression against Ukraine’ required the international community to defend UN Charter principles prohibiting the use of force against another country.
It seems unlikely that Tokyo will allow either to become deal breakers. By including them as outcomes of the ministerial meeting, it was perhaps just laying down a bargaining position for the summit – or announcing its positions to its Western allies.Japan’s general approach to Ticad also differs from China’s Focac. China has financed and built many infrastructure projects, including railways, highways and government buildings.
Other differences are the greater inclusiveness of Ticad, which involves multilateral institutions and civil society, while China keeps it all in government. Japan also emphasises the private sector as the driver of growth and stresses Africa’s agency in the partnership, aiming at 50:50 financing of projects.
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