Ensuring Japan's future as a strategic partner of the U.S.

API Geoeconomic Briefing is a series provided by the Asia Pacific Initiative, an independent think tank based in Tokyo. The series will look into geopolitical and economic trends in the post-COVID-19 world, with a particular focus on four areas: technology and innovation, global supply chains, international rule-making and climate change.

On July 23, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech with a tough rhetoric toward Beijing, directly blasting Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China.

The speech, which was given at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California, was reported by many media as representing a major shift in the United States' China policies, which have been maintained since the 1971 visit to China by Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s national security adviser.