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.

日本处在所有这些印度太平洋贸易协定的中间，现在它需要发挥必要的领导作用，使TPP成为印度太平洋的核心贸易协定，然后RCEP将被降级为杂耍。