SNS: Asia Letter, Q1 2020: Japan and the EU

 

In This Issue Week of 12/16/2019 Vol. 24 Issue 38

Asia Letter: Q1 2020: Japan and the EU o   EU-Japan Infrastructure Initiative o   Japan, Australia, and US Infrastructure Projects o   Japan's Industrial Blockchain o   Blockchain in China o   Next-Generation Telecom o   Sony Image Sensors o   Samsung's Quantum Dot Displays o   Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory o   VW Electric Car Factories in China o   ABB's New Factory in China o   Siemens Digital Industries Software in China o   Singapore's New Defense Agreements o   About Scott Foster Inside SNS Upcoming SNS Events o   TAG Predictions 2020 with Mark Anderson o   Future in Review 2020 o   Where's Mark?

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Asia Letter, Q1 2020

Japan and the EU

    by Scott Foster

 

EU-Japan Infrastructure Initiative

"Whether it be a single road or a single port, when the EU and Japan undertake something, we are able to build sustainable, rules-based connectivity from the Indo-Pacific to the Western Balkans and Africa."

- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at the'"Communication Connecting Europe and Asia" conference in Brussels - (Reuters, 9/27/19)

Japan has agreed to join the European Union's effort to provide an alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative by establishing an infrastructure development plan "backed by a 60 billion euro ($65.48 billion) EU guarantee fund, development banks and private investors" that, according to European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, will be "without mountains of debt," not dependent "on a single country," and with high environmental standards. (Ibid.)