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From April 22 to 29, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will travel to six countries, including the United States, Canada and France, to organize his country's G20 summit in June. In addition to these three countries, this tour will take him to Italy, Belgium and Slovakia.
The Shinzo Abe tour aims to " affirm close cooperation for the success of the G20 summit in Osaka, " June 28-29, said the Japanese prime minister. Shinzo Abe will be received in France this Tuesday, April 23 by Emmanuel Macron. The red thread of this tour will be the rivalry with China.
How to pose Japan as an alternative to China in world trade, without much anger Beijing, this is the goal of this Shinzo Abe tour in Europe and North America. Starting with Paris with Emmanuel Macron, essential to coordinate with France, which chairs the G7 and wants a common commercial response from Europe to China.
Second stopover in Rome, more sensitive to the Chinese projects of the "New Silk Roads", Shinzo Abe will want to convince that Japan can finance infrastructure good for growth, and without danger of a debt trap. This is the opposite of what China would propose to Italy, the first G7 country to integrate the "New Silk Roads" .
Same seduction operation in Slovakia, where Shinzo Abe will meet the leaders of the Visegrad Group countries, China's European allies.
At the same time, the Japanese prime minister will refrain from presenting Beijing as a scarecrow, because he must spare Xi Jinping who will come to Osaka in June for the G20 summit.
After a stop in Brussels to talk Brexit, Shinzo Abe will fly to Canada and the United States. On US soil, he will have to cajole a Donald Trump eager to renegotiate the trade deal to reduce the US deficit with Japan. An urgent renegotiation for Shinzo Abe, if he wants to be robust against China.