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Japan has not been painted as an economic villain for some time now. Atleast not since the early 90s. They have come in for some criticism for their protectionism but the citicism is very minor compared to the criticism of China's economic foreign and domestic policy.
Re. trade and exports: Trump has attacked Canada and Germany also. But the bulk of his criticism has been directed at China.
Japan doesn't really need us to protect them, they can go nuclear in a fortnight if they wanted to, but for their consitution and the US-Japan Treaty of 1951 barred Japan from developing nuclear weapons in exchange for coming under the US nuclear umbrella.
Thanks for debating politely.
I don’t disagree with you. But people are missing the obvious point I was trying to make. If you were to go back in time, China was no threat economically or militarily, but Japan was the punching bag for US industries like the auto industry. One US auto company, I forgot which one, even had a film with imagery harkening back to World War 2 even with the Rising Sun iconography.
My point is that Japan once their economy and innovation isn’t a threat to US industry then now they’re the good asiatics. Fair enough of a thesis?
This is obvious. Russia, depending on a rather strange dynamic is still a threat or had been replaced by China. Steve Brannon has used his website and political influence to push China as the existential threat. He had been interviewed and had been very transparent in his views.
Japan has allowed North Korea to fire a rocket across Hokkaido and the South of Japan. They’ve done nothing to retaliate except protest through their diplomatic channel and of course in press announcements. It doesn’t help that China backs NK.
No offense, nukes will not deter China if China wishes to attack Japan. China has been extremely belligerent in the China South Sea. Singapore has been looking for a coalition of Asian countries to attempt to deter China.
I have come across China and Pakistan I believe having border skirmishes so even Pakistan is willing to push back but Japan isn’t willing to do much than protest and try to negotiate when even Russia wants some islands under their control that was I believe contested from the Russo-Japanese War.