China actively exercises temporal authority in East Asia, defining global futures through narratives like the "China Dream" for national rejuvenation and the "Global Community of Shared Future" (GCSF), which explicitly links domestic legitimacy to world order and proposes Beijing's preferred global governance concepts. The article posits that the future is a means of conducting international relations, with "imagined futures" coordinating present behavior under uncertainty.
East Asia is a crucial site where these global imaginaries and political struggles are observable, determining which actors define legitimate, desirable, or dangerous futures. Japan employs a defensive and normative future politics, adapting to China's rise, preserving regional order via its "Free and Open Indo-Pacific" (FOIP) concept, and using "threat" narratives to justify security adaptations. South Korea navigates geopolitical uncertainty by strategically positioning between its US alliance and economic ties with China, influenced by North Korea and historical memory. This "politics of inequality" means the capacity to project authoritative futures is unequally distributed, shaping regional and global hierarchies.
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