The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP), and the Japan Economic Foundation (JEF) released the findings of its independent Study Group on October 3, 2006.  The Study Group report, “Engaging China and India: An Economic Agenda for Japan and the United States,” reflects the thinking of a study group of American and Japanese business, government, and academic leaders. 

 

The project launched in September of 2005 with the first of two sets of consultations and meetings in San Francisco and Chicago and continued with a second set of meetings in Tokyo in July 2006.The study was cochaired by Kenneth Dam, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, and Noboru Hatakeyama, Chairman and CEO, Japan Economic Foundation and former vice-minister of International Affairs for the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan.

 

The report makes a substantive contribution to the U.S. and Japanese policymaking processes and public discourse on how the two nations can improve cooperation and engagement with China and India. In particular, it focuses on ‘win-win’ approaches for the United States and Japan to facilitate sustained growth and development in China and India, advance the evolving trade relationships between the four nations and the potential for new Asian free trade areas, help solve the energy and environmental challenges faced by the four countries, and promote innovation and technological development in support of growth.

Generous support from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and an anonymous donor made the Study Group and its report possible. 

 

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