{"id":68404,"date":"2024-12-19T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/19\/japan-close-ties-us-survive-fads-quirks-donald-trump"},"modified":"2024-12-19T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T05:00:08","slug":"will-japans-close-ties-with-us-survive-the-caprice-and-quirks-of-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68404","title":{"rendered":"Will Japan\u2019s close ties with US survive the caprice and quirks of Donald Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s complex defence alliances built up over years as protection against China could be put at risk in a Trump-launched trade war<\/p>\n<p>Arguably, no country in Asia has better reason to be in a state of anxiety over the return of Donald Trump to the White House than Japan, since the US has been the linchpin of Japanese foreign and security policy since the second world war.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2017, well before he became prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba described Trump\u2019s method as one of \u201cplacing his counterpart in a state of anxiety and tension, creating psychological instability and then initiating a deal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/19\/japan-close-ties-us-survive-fads-quirks-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s complex defence alliances built up over years as protection against China could be put at risk in a Trump-launched trade warArguably, no country in Asia has better reason to be in a state of anxiety over the return of Donald Trump to the White &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,415,437,558,557,88,638,222,74,554,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","category-south-korea","category-taiwan","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68405,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68404\/revisions\/68405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}