An East Asian Community and Koizumi Diplomacy within the Great Game between U.S. and China

This paper analyzes the emerging East Asian regionalism and compares the foreign policies of U.S., China, and Japan, differentiating the two main sides of foreign policy: security policy and foreign economic policy. In Section １, it principally examines the East Asian regionalism in terms of low politics: the evolution of ASEAN+３, foreign economic policies of these three countries and the establishing process of East Asia Summit. In Section ２, the paper analyzes the East Asian regionalism in terms of high politics: security policies of U.S., China and Japan, the evolution of U.S.-Japan alliance, and the cooperative security in East Asia. Finally, this paper argues that Japan' s foreign policy is characterized by decoupling foreign economic policy from security policy, while U.S. and China carry out the both sides of foreign policy in a body.