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Experts say India, Japan and ASEAN both want to gain economic benefits in their dealings with China and do not want China to develop too fast, before this balanced policy, China's best response is to adhere to the peaceful rise, and seek cooperation with neighboring countries our correspondent Li Jing Beijing October 27, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ended his three-day visit to Japan.　　Within three days, Japan and India have concluded an economic cooperation agreement (EPA), issued a joint statement, and agreed to strengthen the global strategic partnership in the next 10 years and exchange views on rare earths and nuclear energy development issues. During his visit to Japan, Singh attended the 25th meeting of the Japanese-Indian alliance of Friendly parliamentarians. Japan's former prime minister, Abe Abe, said at the meeting that Japan-India relations "are close to a joint alliance of democracy and the rule of law".　　In the tense relationship between China and Japan, Abe's remark implied concern and was intended to underscore the need for Japan to strengthen its cooperation with India in such strategic areas as security and resources. According to Japanese media reports, Japan's economic industry Minister 畠 Ohata at a press conference on 22nd, the Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at the end of the ASEAN Summit in Vietnam this month, will discuss with Vietnamese Prime Minister dung on the development of Vietnamese rare Earth investment, trade cooperation matters.　　Japan and Vietnam are most likely to sign a deal to co-operate on the development of Vietnamese rare earths on October 31.　　After his visit to Japan, Singh will visit Malaysia and Vietnam and attend the 8th session of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the 5th East Asia Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam. Executive vice president of the South Asian Society of China Sun Shihai, a researcher at the Asia Pacific Institute for Security Diplomacy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview with the reporter that Japan frequently contacted India, Vietnam and even Mongolia to discuss rare earth trade matters, indeed with Sino-Japanese rare earth friction, but Japan and India, Vietnam because of economic cooperation to form a "strategic alliance　　is unlikely. While Mr Singh's visit is widely regarded as an important step in implementing India's "Eastward policy" (Look East Policy), Sun Shihai said, "India and the ASEAN countries will have a balance strategy between big countries for a long time."　　"In 1992 India first put forward the" East Policy ", its core is to strengthen the relations between India and ASEAN countries, expand India's influence in Southeast Asia, East Asia. Japan-India EPA: Win the election of Japan and India signed the EPA Democratic Party after the signing of the first free trade agreement.　　The agreement stipulates that, 10 years after the entry into force of the agreement, the amount of 94% of the total trade between the two countries will achieve zero tariff on trade, of which the Japanese side has zero tariff treatment for 90% of India's exports and India's exports to Japan of 97%. On the day of the agreement, the New Nippon Iron Corporation issued a statement saying it would be a big boost for the company's development in India. As the world's second-largest steelmaker, Nippon Steel has just announced the upcoming launch of its new motorcycle exhaust pipe factory in India and started production in 2012. At present, Japan's steel exports to India's tariffs of 5%, according to the EPA regulations, the closeTaxes need to be eliminated within 5 years.　　At the meeting of the Japan-India friendly parliamentarians, Mr. Okada, the DPJ's Secretary-General, pointed out that China-Japan trade was about 1.7 trillion yuan, and that the 5%,epa between Japan and India could help expand the trade between the two countries by more than 10 times times. "As a rising emerging market and a populous country, India's importance cannot be overlooked, not just in Japan, where other countries need to woo it for strategic, economic and resource benefits."　　"Sun Shihai that Japan has long maintained large-scale economic and trade exchanges with China, the economic interdependence of the Chinese market is too high, and in the period of subtle changes in Sino-Japanese relations, Japan will worry that the domestic economy is subject to bilateral relations, another way is understandable."　　In addition to finding export markets for its own commodities, Japan is also trying to develop more suppliers of rare earths. Since the Diaoyu Island incident, the Sino-daytime trade in rare earths has been intermittent and is now in a state of stagnation. In Japan, where rare earths are needed to support domestic electronics production, Mr Singh's visit is sincere.　　In an interview with Indian media prior to his departure, he said that India, the world's 5th-largest producer of rare earths, had always wanted to work with Japan, while China's rumours of a reduction of rare-earth exports to Japan were "a big incentive for us". Amitendu Palit, a senior visiting researcher at the South Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore, told the correspondent that India is not simply exporting resources to Japan, but is taking this opportunity to attract Japanese companies to invest in mining and to participate in the process of refining and processing of rare earths,　　To improve the size and competitiveness of Indian rare earth products.　　It is reported that Japan's Toyota Motor Company's Toyota trading complex has plans to build a rare earth refinery in the east of India. So while the western media will interpret the Japanese-Indian meeting as a way for Japan to curb China by India, Dr Palit stressed that India's economic cooperation with Japan is first and foremost a choice for India's own interests.　　He said that Japan-India's conclusion of the EPA is a winning option, India will not be because of the delicate relationship with China and deliberately adopt a diplomatic direction against China.　　India and Japan Difficult Alliance and Japan in the strategic security of the heat of the different attitude, although Mr Singh's trip on nuclear energy cooperation with Japan, but did not act positively, and did not respond to Shinzo Abe, "Close to the Alliance" argument. "India knows what the alliance means, and it will not easily align with any country." Sun Shihai told reporters that India has so far not abandoned the non-aligned position.　　From a geopolitical point of view, if India explicitly played an alliance banner, in fact, instead of the Sino-Indian relations into a dilemma, not only India's own development space will be compressed, and Russian relations will also be affected. In addition to India, Japan will soon conclude a trade agreement with Vietnam on rare earths.　　The agreement, which is expected to be signed on October 31, will involve, in addition to rare earths, a nuclear power plant and high-speed rail that Japan is about to build in Vietnam. Since the United States last year a high-profile return to Southeast Asia, Japan andContacts between India and Vietnam have again caused unease in China. "The balance of great Powers is the basic strategy of ASEAN countries."　　Sun Shihai that, just as Japan and South Korea want the United States to return to Southeast Asia to play a role in balancing China, the ASEAN countries also want to borrow the United States, India, China, Japan, Korea and other countries to balance the force.　　Speaking at a regular press conference October 26, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said that China's policy of developing friendly and cooperative relations with India will not change, and is committed to improving and developing Sino-Japanese relations. "Both Japan, India and ASEAN have many economic benefits in their dealings with China," he said. They will not confront China on the one hand, nor do they want China to develop too fast.　　"This ambivalence makes the balance strategy a big deal in Asia, and China's best response is to always stick to a strategy of peaceful rise, to seek more cooperation and win with its neighbours," Sun Shihai. On October 27, Singh expressed optimism about China-India relations in an interview with the media. "I think the world is big enough to accommodate the growth and ambitions of China and India," he said. We should develop bilateral relations on this level. ”