Japan’s Takaichi vows to take US ties to new high with Trump | East Asia Tonight (Oct 24)
The prime minister also promised to spend 2% of GDP on defence by this financial year, two years ahead of the original 2027 target. Also on East Asia Tonight: China sets out its five-year plan with a warning about growing strategic competition; Asia gears up for a diplomatic blitz next week with the ASEAN and APEC summits; and South Korea wants better ties with China without “losing our basic identity”: FM Cho Hyun.
00:00 Headlines
01:41 Takaichi’s first policy speech
09:48 Asia’s diplomatic blitz
12:25 China’s five-year plan
27:44 South Korea’s Cho Hyun talks to CNA about China, US
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Japan never learn its history. Japan will be worse than Germany Nazi
Japan imperial emperor kill million people never apologize. How cruel japanese brutality kill million of innocence beheaded
Japan is a true US friend, despite the plaza accord and now the tariffs. USA is very lucky indeed.😅
Lapdog
increase ties with Trump
RIP ⚰ Japan
you can throw few more nuclear bombs on their cities and they will still bow for US
King(drump) :
Where are my $ SK ! 350 billion !
2025-9-22 , South Korea's President Lee says US investment demands would spark financial crisis
South Korea's economy could fall into crisis rivalling its 1997 meltdown if the government accepts current U.S. demands in stalled trade talks without safeguards – President Lee Jae Myung
theu$ said it would lower tariffs on South Korean goods in exchange for $350 billion in investment from South Korea.
King(drump) :
Where are my $ Takaichi ! 550 billion !
Usd 350 billion not high enough ? 😅
2025-10-24 Takaichi :
"China is an "important neighbor" and it is necessary to build a constructive and stable relationship with it."
Resources that has nothing to do with AUS , but they claim ..
Australia and Timor-Leste have a long-standing dispute over oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea, with the discovery of significant reserves.
The Laminaria-Corallina oil field in the Timor Sea is just outside the Joint Petroleum Development Area, twice as close to Timor-Leste as it is to Australia. It belongs to Timor-Leste under current international legal principles (UNCLOS). Laminaria-Corallina has produced 203 million barrels of oil since starting production in late 1999. Australia has made more than two billion dollars from this field, but Timor-Leste has not received one cent.
The field is almost entirely depleted, but production could continue for a while. Woodside's reserve estimates for the end of 2015 said that Laminaria-Corallina contains less than 0.5 million recoverable barrels.
How much money has Australia taken from Timor-Leste? Our very conservative calculations show that Australia received more than $2.2 billion U.S. dollars in government revenues from Laminaria-Corallina through the end of 2015, and the actual figure is significantly higher.
Until 2005, Woodside’s ownership share of the two joint ventures was 44.9% of Laminaria and 50% of Corallina, a 47.9% portion of the unified field production. In 2005, Woodside purchased an additional share in Laminaria from Shell. Since then, Woodside's share is 59.9% of Laminaria and 66.67% of Corallina, amounting to about 66% of total production.
日本の海の海底には、数百年分のレア・アースや天然ガスが埋蔵されてます。
Japan is in fact a 'Kingdom' with all political parties loyal to the emperor. The only reason the emperor is alive is because he pleadged allegiance to the US. Japan is a vessel state.
Takaichi is really itchy, trying to be an obedient female servant to US.
China will restrict export of rare earths to Japan, her stimulation of economy will turn into stimulating something else.
She will be out within a year.
Japan is lapdog to US. It can never become a normal country.
Takaichi may not last long.
The Japanese PM is not even born in Japan. Will never see happen in US. CIA hand all over this.
didnt think it was possible for japan to be more of a servant to usa
Japan will never change they like to be the puppet of the hypocrite US..they will even destroy Japan economy for the hypocrite master… 🥴😵💫🥴😵💫🥴😵💫🥴😵💫
Wish trump would slow down with his tariffs and being difficult with trade. ..
he need to treat allies like s.korea , Japan , phillipines and others with more respect and cooperation.
Ukraine should also be treated a lot better and more could be done to help there situation.. .
Trump need to wake up and save the harsh tariffs for countries like china .. tougher sanctions and stance on Russia. Putin and Xi are not his or u.s friends. and the " good relationship " he thinks he has with them is just ridiculous especially given everything china and Russia does.