Ⅱ. Lack of leadership in East Asia --------------------------- p 5
Ⅲ. The possible roles of Korea ------------------------------ p 10
Ⅳ. the limits and prospect of korea’s roles --------------------- p 18
Ⅴ. Conclusions ----------------------------------------- p 21
1. The bridge between China and Japan
Before the forming of EAEC in the region, it is crucial for China and Japan to cooperate first. However it is also impossible for them to make their own voices all the time and insist their own taste on the process of cooperation in this current situation. That is way they are so crazy about making Korea stand for one of their side to overwhelming the other side of power. It is true that Japan and China have almost same status of diplomatic and economic power, but no leadership of the region, so the one which get the cooperation of Korea would dominate the leadership and power in EAEC. Now it is quite clear the movement of both China and Japan’s wooing to Korea to agree on FTA with them first. They are currently considering having a FTA among three countries and the summit meeting of the foreign affair departments has held in Jeju in Korea this month.
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