Il Giappone affronta un reset epocale con gli Stati Uniti | FT #shorts
The US Japan relationship is facing its worst crisis in 25 years because of Donald Trump’s transactional approach to defense and trade in his second term. The US president’s tariff demands and rhetoric like referring to Japan as Mr. Japan suggest there’s real fragility between Washington and its top investor and its key security ally in Asia. Trump has pushed Japan to raise its defense spending and regards the $68 billion trade surplus that Japan has over America as a clear sign of unfair trading practices and non-tariff barriers. He’s even referred to Japan as spoiled. The sudden uncertainty around the US Japan relationship suggests that both sides may have misread the others priorities. Fears are now growing that the escalating trade crisis could directly affect the balance of security across the Asia-Pacific region. Although the US Japan alliance as an institution will certainly survive, analysts see an eradeefining reset is now inevitable. Unlike Shinszo Abbe, who was prime minister during Trump’s first term and had a great relationship with the US president, the current Japanese prime minister, Shigedu Ishiba, is having a harder time managing that relationship. The big question now is whether Ishiba’s failure to make quicker headway in trade talks and whether the broader failure of Japan to recalibrate rapidly enough is going to prove existential for the US Japan relationship.
Donald Trump’s tariff demands and rhetoric, such as referring to Japan as ‘Mr Japan’, show signs of a more fundamental fragility in its ties to America’s top investor and key security ally.
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7 Comments
Let's not forget that Donald Trump is a madman.
Hmmm, so Japan wants to be left to the tender mercies of China, Russia, and the Koreas?????
REALLY? It’s time for Japan to open their markets up for United States manufacturers and other industries. Japan sends a LOT of cars to the US for sale…. Japan’s agriculture cartel is very similar to Canada’s and France’s Agriculture cartels…
Trump will cause the global economy immense damage by the end of his term.
The era of endless flexibility in the Japanese body will never end.
And…
There goes another implicit bureaucrat fading away into nothingmess whining about why his subsisted existence is no longer paid for by the american taxpayer. BYE!
Japan was betrayed by USA through Plaza Accord
Hey Leo!