Chitchat Jap Shinzo Abe Very Fast Fly to USA to Porlumpa Donald Trump

[Pinkieslut]

I recommend Pinky Loong quickly find an opportnity to go there soon instead of getting his useless dogs lecturing US and Donald Trump in public media.

nytimes.com
Abe to Meet Trump to Press Japan’s Case on Security and Trade
Motoko Rich

The surprise result had the prime minister’s advisers scrambling Wednesday night to develop briefing books for him on scenarios they had assumed were moot. Japan has grown accustomed to a friendly relationship with the United States, and Mr. Trump’s campaign criticisms have unsettled officials who wonder whether they can still count on the country’s most important ally.

In their call on Thursday, Mr. Abe told Mr. Trump that “a strong Japan-U.S. alliance is an indispensable presence that supports peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region,” according to Koichi Hagiuda, a deputy chief cabinet secretary. Mr. Hagiuda said the two leaders did not discuss the trade deal or Mr. Trump’s calls for Japan to shoulder more of the cost of hosting United States forces.

It is not clear whether Mr. Abe will push to discuss such specifics in his meeting with Mr. Trump, scheduled for next Thursday, when the prime minister will be in New York on his way to Peru for a forum on economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. But he will certainly look to begin the diplomatic dance of persuading Mr. Trump to back away from some of his harshest rhetoric on those issues.

Mr. Abe will seek to develop a personal relationship with the president-elect — a connection that might not come so naturally, given Mr. Trump’s maverick personality and lack of diplomatic experience and Mr. Abe’s long career as an establishment politician. This is Mr. Abe’s second tenure as prime minister, and his grandfather held the post decades ago.

“It’s really hard to imagine a political blue blood like Abe establishing a warm rapport with Trump,” said Jeffrey Kingston, the director of Asian studies at Temple University’s campus in Tokyo. “But it’s sort of like your family. He’s inherited the U.S. as an ally, so he’s going to have to develop a working relationship.”

For Japan, much is riding on the bond between the two countries. Although Japan has its own military, it counts on American forces — which have been based here since the occupation after World War II — to help protect it from threats from surrounding countries, an obligation the United States is bound by treaty to fulfill. Japan pays about $1.8 billion toward the cost of hosting American troops on the island of Okinawa and elsewhere around Japan.

Rising tensions in Asia have made the alliance particularly vital for Japan. North Korea’s tests of atomic weapons, and repeated incursions by Chinese vessels into disputed waters surrounding a group of Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea, have unnerved the Japanese. Mr. Abe has long sought to bolster Japan’s own military.
The United States aircraft carrier John C. Stennis during a joint military exercise with the United States, Japan and India near Okinawa in June. Nobuhiro Kubo/Reuters

But Japan completely relies on the United States for nuclear deterrence; while Japan is the only country where atomic bombs have ever been used in war, it does not have nuclear weapons. During the campaign, Mr. Trump suggested several times that Japan, along with its neighbor and fellow American ally South Korea, should develop and pay for its own nuclear arsenal.

In an interview that aired Thursday on NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, Maj. Gen. Bert K. Mizusawa, who was recently named one of Mr. Trump’s advisers, said that as a businessman, Mr. Trump regarded treaties with other countries as contracts that needed to be reviewed to see whether they benefited Americans. Mr. Mizusawa added that the so-called nuclear umbrella that the United States provides to Japan and South Korea is costly, and he suggested that North Korea’s increasing threat would make it even costlier.

Mr. Abe is unlikely to broach the nuclear topic directly with Mr. Trump next week. Antinuclear sentiment is strong in Japan, which was struck in 2011 by an earthquake and tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant in Fukushima; any effort to develop nuclear weapons would face a severe domestic backlash.

South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye, also reached out to Mr. Trump on Thursday with a 10-minute congratulatory call, emphasizing the importance of maintaining strong sanctions and pressure against North Korea. A statement from Ms. Park’s office said Mr. Trump had assured her that he agreed “100 percent.”

“We are with you all the way, and we will not waver,” the statement quoted him as saying.

For South Korea and Japan, perhaps more worrying than any immediate action Mr. Trump might take is the action he might not take. Analysts here said they worried that Asia, after being the focus of a “pivot” by President Obama, would fall down the list of American foreign policy priorities, leaving a vacuum into which China might rush.

“We should be aware that the U.S. will pay less attention to Asia,” Nikkei Shimbun, a Japanese financial newspaper, wrote in an editorial on Thursday. “During the transitional period, China could make a new move in the South or East China Sea. The Japanese government needs to be ready for such a situation.”

Since the election, many analysts have appeared on Japanese talk shows to discuss the effect of a Trump presidency. But as elsewhere, much of the talk is based on speculation about how literally to take Mr. Trump’s campaign pledges.

“It’s not quite healthy to draw any conclusion from what he has said,” said Yoshiki Mine, a former official with the Foreign Ministry in Japan and now head of the Institute of Peaceful Diplomacy, a research organization. “We have to wait to see whether he will get good briefings or whether he is flexible enough to look at things more squarely.”

 

[winnipegjets]

Thanks to Trump, Japan and South Korea will embark on nuclear weapons.

Trump is creating a wonderful world indeed.

 

[Pinkieslut]

Trump victory triggers uncertainty in Tokyo
By Mike Head
14 November 2016

Within hours of Donald Trump’s victory in the US, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly became the fourth world leader to hold a teleconference with the president-elect. The pair agreed to meet on November 17 in New York.

The 20-minute phone call and hastily-arranged meeting provide some indication of the nervousness in Japanese ruling circles over the implications of the Trump presidency. In an editorial on Thursday, Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s major daily newspapers, stated: “Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election amounts to a huge political earthquake that will shake the postwar world order to its core.”

During the election campaign, Trump branded Japan a trade rival and “currency manipulator,” threatened to withdraw US troops from Japan unless the country paid more for their presence, and suggested that Japan and South Korea should acquire nuclear weapons.

“Our allies are not paying their fair share,” Trump said in a campaign speech in April. In the words of a Japan Times columnist, he accused both countries of “freeloading under nuclear umbrella provided by the US.”

Trump also denounced the Obama administration’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact, which is now dead in the water, thwarting Abe’s plans to exploit the trade and investment bloc to boost Japan’s stagnant economy.

In a statement, Abe spoke of Japan and the United States as “unshakeable allies.” During their teleconference, he said he was convinced that “America will be made even greater” under Trump’s leadership. In response, Trump praised Abe’s economic policy achievements and said he wanted to work with Abe to “further strengthen the great partnership” between the two countries.

These initial conciliatory remarks cannot hide the heightened tensions between the two imperialist powers, which fought each other for control of the Asia Pacific during World War II.

Abe may be anxious to avoid an abrupt breakdown of the military and geo-strategic alliance with the US, on which the Japanese elite has relied since the war. But Trump’s aggressive “America first” policy is likely to intensify calls in Tokyo for the further re-militarisation of Japan, a process already instigated by Abe.

Abe’s government had appeared to bank on a win by Hillary Clinton, with whom Abe maintained close ties. He last met her in New York during September while he was attending the United Nations General Assembly. Just before the US election, the government leaked to the media a report that Abe would meet Clinton, as president, in Washington during February.

By contrast, Abe’s administration had little contact with the Trump camp. The only aide of Trump who visited Japan recently was ex-general Michael Flynn, who serves as Trump’s military adviser.

Just before the US election, two Trump advisers gave some idea of the bellicose military posture that his government will pursue in Asia, particularly against China, despite suggestions that the billionaire will pursue an “isolationist” foreign policy.

In a November 7 Foreign Policy article they criticised President Barack Obama’s “pivot” to Asia as “talking loudly but carrying a small stick.” They said Trump would beef up the US Navy, and re-asserted it was “only fair” that Japan and South Korea pay more for US military protection.

“There is no question of Trump’s commitment to America’s Asian alliances as bedrocks of stability in the region,” wrote University of California professor, Peter Navarro, and Alexander Gray, a former adviser to US politician Randy Forbes.

The article indicted the Obama administration for failing to halt China’s maritime activities in the East and South China Seas, where Beijing has longstanding territorial disputes with neighbouring countries, including Japan. It declared: “The mere initiation of the Trump naval program will reassure our allies that the United States remains committed in the long term to its traditional role as guarantor of the liberal order in Asia.”

The Asahi Shimbun reported that some Japanese politicians welcomed Trump’s proposition that Japan should arm itself with nuclear weapons. “Japan has long been steeped in lukewarm water provided by the United States,” a member of Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) told the newspaper. “This is a good opportunity for Japan to shift to a path to defend itself (without relying on the United States).”

Since taking office in 2012, Abe’s right-wing LDP government has already boosted military spending, concentrated war powers in a US-style National Security Council and refashioned military planning to focus on conflict with China. Abe used the Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia, directed at combating China’s rising influence, as a means of pursuing this re-militarisation, which was also encouraged by Washington.

Japan’s new military legislation, which came into force in March, allows the country’s armed forces, under the guise of “collective self-defence,” to fully participate in wars abroad for the first time since the end of World War II. Abe’s government pushed the laws through parliament during 2015 despite some of the largest anti-war protests in Japanese history. This followed the reinterpretation of the postwar constitution by Abe’s cabinet in July 2014 to allow such joint military action.

In December 2015, the Japanese government also agreed to pay 946.5 billion yen ($US9.19 billion) to fund US bases over the fiscal 2016-20 period. That figure was 13.3 billion yen more than the sum paid in the previous five-year period. A US Defense Department report in 2004 showed that Tokyo’s share in the overall expenses for US forces in Japan was 74.5 percent in 2002, compared to 32.6 percent for Germany and 40 percent for South Korea.

At present, the US bases in Japan, which house almost 50,000 military personnel, are closely integrated into Washington’s preparations for conflict with China. Together with Australia in the south, Japan is a critical linchpin in America’s military and geo-strategic encirclement of China.

However, if that alignment were to be breached, including by Trump’s threats to pull out the military forces, then ultra-nationalist elements within Japan’s own establishment could raise their heads. This is a double-edged sword for Washington. As one Asia Times commentator stated: “In fact, the Abe administration is likely to welcome (quietly) an opportunity to shore up national defence in response to demands from the Trump administration.”

Economically, Trump’s protectionist policies—such as his threats of retaliatory tariffs against China and possibly other countries—are likely to hurt Japanese corporations. According to Finance Ministry statistics, Japan’s total exports to the US—its largest export market—stood at 15 trillion yen in fiscal 2015. These could all be endangered by protectionism, notably in the auto industry.

Trump’s killing off of the TPP is a particular blow to Japan. Bloomberg noted: “Trump’s win all but doomed the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which could have boosted Japanese manufacturers. Abe was counting on the pact as a catalyst for long-promised structural reforms in protected sectors of the economy.”

The demise of the TPP also strikes at Washington’s authority in Japan and throughout the region, opening the door to China’s alternative proposal for an East Asian trade bloc, effectively under China’s sway. Ryo Sahashi, associate professor of international politics at Kanagawa University, warned: “If TPP does not happen, the US will lose credibility among its allies and partners in Asia.”

 

[winnipegjets]

Trump victory triggers uncertainty in Tokyo
By Mike Head
14 November 2016

Within hours of Donald Trump’s victory in the US, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly became the fourth world leader to hold a teleconference with the president-elect. The pair agreed to meet on November 17 in New York.

The 20-minute phone call and hastily-arranged meeting provide some indication of the nervousness in Japanese ruling circles over the implications of the Trump presidency. In an editorial on Thursday, Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s major daily newspapers, stated: “Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election amounts to a huge political earthquake that will shake the postwar world order to its core.”

During the election campaign, Trump branded Japan a trade rival and “currency manipulator,” threatened to withdraw US troops from Japan unless the country paid more for their presence, and suggested that Japan and South Korea should acquire nuclear weapons.

“Our allies are not paying their fair share,” Trump said in a campaign speech in April. In the words of a Japan Times columnist, he accused both countries of “freeloading under nuclear umbrella provided by the US.”

Trump also denounced the Obama administration’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact, which is now dead in the water, thwarting Abe’s plans to exploit the trade and investment bloc to boost Japan’s stagnant economy.

In a statement, Abe spoke of Japan and the United States as “unshakeable allies.” During their teleconference, he said he was convinced that “America will be made even greater” under Trump’s leadership. In response, Trump praised Abe’s economic policy achievements and said he wanted to work with Abe to “further strengthen the great partnership” between the two countries.

These initial conciliatory remarks cannot hide the heightened tensions between the two imperialist powers, which fought each other for control of the Asia Pacific during World War II.

Abe may be anxious to avoid an abrupt breakdown of the military and geo-strategic alliance with the US, on which the Japanese elite has relied since the war. But Trump’s aggressive “America first” policy is likely to intensify calls in Tokyo for the further re-militarisation of Japan, a process already instigated by Abe.

Abe’s government had appeared to bank on a win by Hillary Clinton, with whom Abe maintained close ties. He last met her in New York during September while he was attending the United Nations General Assembly. Just before the US election, the government leaked to the media a report that Abe would meet Clinton, as president, in Washington during February.

By contrast, Abe’s administration had little contact with the Trump camp. The only aide of Trump who visited Japan recently was ex-general Michael Flynn, who serves as Trump’s military adviser.

Just before the US election, two Trump advisers gave some idea of the bellicose military posture that his government will pursue in Asia, particularly against China, despite suggestions that the billionaire will pursue an “isolationist” foreign policy.

In a November 7 Foreign Policy article they criticised President Barack Obama’s “pivot” to Asia as “talking loudly but carrying a small stick.” They said Trump would beef up the US Navy, and re-asserted it was “only fair” that Japan and South Korea pay more for US military protection.

“There is no question of Trump’s commitment to America’s Asian alliances as bedrocks of stability in the region,” wrote University of California professor, Peter Navarro, and Alexander Gray, a former adviser to US politician Randy Forbes.

The article indicted the Obama administration for failing to halt China’s maritime activities in the East and South China Seas, where Beijing has longstanding territorial disputes with neighbouring countries, including Japan. It declared: “The mere initiation of the Trump naval program will reassure our allies that the United States remains committed in the long term to its traditional role as guarantor of the liberal order in Asia.”

The Asahi Shimbun reported that some Japanese politicians welcomed Trump’s proposition that Japan should arm itself with nuclear weapons. “Japan has long been steeped in lukewarm water provided by the United States,” a member of Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) told the newspaper. “This is a good opportunity for Japan to shift to a path to defend itself (without relying on the United States).”

Since taking office in 2012, Abe’s right-wing LDP government has already boosted military spending, concentrated war powers in a US-style National Security Council and refashioned military planning to focus on conflict with China. Abe used the Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia, directed at combating China’s rising influence, as a means of pursuing this re-militarisation, which was also encouraged by Washington.

Japan’s new military legislation, which came into force in March, allows the country’s armed forces, under the guise of “collective self-defence,” to fully participate in wars abroad for the first time since the end of World War II. Abe’s government pushed the laws through parliament during 2015 despite some of the largest anti-war protests in Japanese history. This followed the reinterpretation of the postwar constitution by Abe’s cabinet in July 2014 to allow such joint military action.

In December 2015, the Japanese government also agreed to pay 946.5 billion yen ($US9.19 billion) to fund US bases over the fiscal 2016-20 period. That figure was 13.3 billion yen more than the sum paid in the previous five-year period. A US Defense Department report in 2004 showed that Tokyo’s share in the overall expenses for US forces in Japan was 74.5 percent in 2002, compared to 32.6 percent for Germany and 40 percent for South Korea.

At present, the US bases in Japan, which house almost 50,000 military personnel, are closely integrated into Washington’s preparations for conflict with China. Together with Australia in the south, Japan is a critical linchpin in America’s military and geo-strategic encirclement of China.

However, if that alignment were to be breached, including by Trump’s threats to pull out the military forces, then ultra-nationalist elements within Japan’s own establishment could raise their heads. This is a double-edged sword for Washington. As one Asia Times commentator stated: “In fact, the Abe administration is likely to welcome (quietly) an opportunity to shore up national defence in response to demands from the Trump administration.”

Economically, Trump’s protectionist policies—such as his threats of retaliatory tariffs against China and possibly other countries—are likely to hurt Japanese corporations. According to Finance Ministry statistics, Japan’s total exports to the US—its largest export market—stood at 15 trillion yen in fiscal 2015. These could all be endangered by protectionism, notably in the auto industry.

Trump’s killing off of the TPP is a particular blow to Japan. Bloomberg noted: “Trump’s win all but doomed the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which could have boosted Japanese manufacturers. Abe was counting on the pact as a catalyst for long-promised structural reforms in protected sectors of the economy.”

The demise of the TPP also strikes at Washington’s authority in Japan and throughout the region, opening the door to China’s alternative proposal for an East Asian trade bloc, effectively under China’s sway. Ryo Sahashi, associate professor of international politics at Kanagawa University, warned: “If TPP does not happen, the US will lose credibility among its allies and partners in Asia.”

The alt-right view of the world is that everyone should just take care of themselves. All immigrants should return to their ethnic lands. Then only will whites be able to enjoy the glorious lives, as promised by Trump.

 

[red amoeba]

thanks to trump, he will soon have 3 nuclear capable naughty boys in his backyard....pearl harbor redux.

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

Thanks to Trump, Japan and South Korea will embark on nuclear weapons.

Trump is creating a wonderful world indeed.

as PM Abe has two tasks only........ irritate China n carry US balls
he is not concern with Jpn economy as he has fucked it up beyond repair

 

[Pinkieslut]

as PM Abe has two tasks only........ irritate China n carry US balls
he is not concern with Jpn economy as he has fucked it up beyond repair

Well Japan has the same situation (in some ways) like Singapore. They are stuck in the past glories and mindsets.

 

[WujiBo]

He has to. Because he had in the past pissed off China and North Korea.

 

[KuanTi01]

He has to. Because he had in the past pissed off China and North Korea.

This Abe is the biggest balls carrier & apologist for USA. He will grab any opportunity and prostitute himself flat out to go one up on his biggest nemesis, China. Never one to apologise!

 

[Pinkieslut]

This Abe is the biggest balls carrier & apologist for USA. He will grab any opportunity and prostitute himself flat out to go one up on his biggest nemesis, China. Never one to apologise!

How come Pinky Loong cannot go all out and prostitute himself?

 

[3_M]

It not in line with diplomatic protocol for a pm to fly all the way to meet a person who has yet to assume office.

 

[Hans168]

this jappo scum is so shameless the way he conducts foreign policy........ those big hats who went to China first will be invited to meet him personally for buddy talk followed by free gifts incl obsolete redundant military hardwares being junked n which will be so expensive to maintain...........he shud be FM of jappoland NOT PM

 

[Hans168]

It not in line with diplomatic protocol for a pm to fly all the way to meet a person who has yet to assume office.

scruple n shame not in jappo's dictionary which is only full of ....... hei........ which in cantonese means tiu your mama;s hei

 

[eatshitndie]

it's all to thwart tiongland cumming up with trade pact alternative for the pacific to export junk.