Japan sits in the middle of all of these Indo-Pacific trade deals and it now needs to exert the necessary leadership to make TPP the core trade deal for the Indo-Pacific and RCEP will then be relegated to a sideshow.

日本處在所有這些印度太平洋貿易協定的中間，現在它需要發揮必要的領導作用，使TPP成為印度太平洋的核心貿易協定，然後RCEP將被降級為雜耍。