Trusts In The Asymmetric Bilateral Trades

The inter-state interdependence is deepening and complicating, with the accelerating paces of globalization, especially for the ever-increasing trans-boundary flows of capital and commodities. Within such a trend, China becomes intertwined with the else of the world. Only by employing a mutually-beneficial strategy can China push through the bottleneck that restricting its further economic achievements. However, an opening China encountered widespread distrusts, severe or moderate, during its economic interaction with other nations; and this is obstructed the both parties from attaining the expected benefits. How to elevate China’s international trustworthy, in order to stabilize its relationships with partners, has already become a focus of both policymakers and scholars.This dissertation bases itself on the studies of interdependence, as well as trust, and it initiates a hypothesis that interdependence is negative to international trust. With the aim of demonstrating that hypothesis, the attitudes toward imported foods within Japanese society is viewed in following case study, partly for the attention this case received in recent years. With the operation of the author’s hypothesis, Japanese society’s trust toward imported aliments, are supposed to be in negative correlation with Japan’s dependence on a given country of food origin; Next to that, are definitions of independent and dependent variables, that respectively are alimentary dependence and trust; Along with that, are statistics of Japan’s alimentary trades with top20nations, the author gets the statistics from the websites of Japanese General Customs, the Ministry of Labor, and the Ministry of Agriculture. And these data are referred to when a comparison is made:ordinary Japanese’s trust to certain country’s foods, and Japan’s alimentary dependence to that country to in the year before, and the Pearson Correlation Coefficient approach will be employed in finding their causalities. After such analyses, the author finds that they are closely correlated, especially when Japan’s dependences are of different heavyweights, the negative correlations are obviously in a hierarchy that resembles "M". So this dissertation maintains that:distrust is most likely when dependence is in escalation.This conclusion may further the study of how to generate trust; And in practice, it may be helpful to China’s striving for the "Harmonious World", when China was shaping a "Mutually-Beneficial and Co-Progressing" economic relationship, some early-warning mechanisms may be necessary and possible.