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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on
Wednesday he will seek to use his chairmanship of the Group of 20 leading
economies to rebuild trust in the global trade system.
His speech to the World Economic Forum in the
Swiss Alps was significant at a time when a bitter Sino-U.S. trade dispute is
one of several factors threatening to bring about a sharp slowdown in global
growth.
“Japan is determined to preserve and
committed to enhancing the free, open, and rules-based international order,” he
told delegates.
“I call on all of you ... to rebuild trust
toward the system for international trade. That should be a system that is
fair, transparent, and effective in protecting intellectual property rights and
also in such areas as e-commerce and government procurement.”
With the French, British and U.S. leaders
cancelling their visits because of more pressing concerns at home, Abe is one
of only three Group of Seven leaders attending the annual event in Davos, where
business executives are worried about the damage that populism and trade
protectionism are inflicting on the global economy.
Abe said Japan, as chair of this year’s
gathering of the Group of 20 (G20), will also seek to spearhead discussions on
climate change and ways to facilitate use of digital data while protecting
intellectual property.
The comments underscore Japan’s hope to rally
support from some of its G20 counterparts in pushing for a multilateral
approach in solving trade frictions.
That could help Tokyo fend off pressure from
Washington to open up its politically sensitive agriculture market and take
other steps to fix bilateral trade imbalances, analysts say.
Japan has to be consistent on the need to
promote free trade “and shouldn’t change this stance even if the United States
is always talking about doing a bilateral deal,” said Takeshi Niinami, head of
brewer Suntory Holdings Ltd and an economic adviser to Abe.
Australia, Singapore and other Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) countries could help Japan make free trade a key topic of
debate at the G20, he told Reuters.
At his previous Davos visit in 2014, Abe
pledged to pull the economy out of stagnation with his “Abenomics” mix of
fiscal spending, ultra-easy monetary policy and steps to boost Japan’s
potential growth via labour market reform and deregulation.
Five years later, the boost to growth from
Abenomics is fading, inflation remains far below the Bank of Japan’s target and
critics point to a lack of progress on deregulation.
Abe sought to counter such criticism, saying
that through job-creating policies he had demolished “a wall of despair and
pessimism on Japan” that had existed five years ago.
He said Japan hoped to build a G20 consensus
on the need to reduce plastic waste flowing into the oceans, and coordinate on
global usage of digital data without infringing on personal privacy and
intellectual property.
“I must say that spending money for a green earth and a blue ocean, once deemed
costly, is now a growth generator,” he said.
“Decarbonisation and profit making can happen
in tandem. We policy makers must be held responsible to make it happen, as I
will be stressing in Osaka this year.”
People close to the premier have said Abe is
keen to use the G20 summit in Osaka, western Japan, in June to boost his poll
ratings ahead of an upper house election looming mid-year.The
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