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“The U.S.’s relationship with Japan will be driven by its relationship with China, not the other way around. Meanwhile, China will aim to loosen the relationship in order to further its goal of regional hegemony. To that end, it will probably seek to influence political events within Japan by all the means at its disposal, overt and covert, as the U.S. did in its time.

The great service that Donald Trump has done Japan is to make explicit what many – including policy-makers and experts in Japan and the United States – have preferred to ignore. All countries have different interests and they inevitably put their own interests first. It follows as night follows day that no country can rely on another for its security in perpetuity.

The end of American exceptionalism means the end of Japanese exceptionalism too. Const itutional reform is just the first step in the long journey to normalization of Japan’s security posture and capability.”
From here: http://www.petertasker.asia/articles/arigato-trump-san-japans-wake-up-call/