BFFs Once More: America Rediscovers Its Alliance with Japan

By: TOKYO | THE ECONOMIST |

It is customary for new American presidents to lavish attention on their closest neighbours, Canada and Mexico. But since Joe Biden took office a much more distant country has hogged the limelight: Japan. … Japan has also been strengthening military ties with [the United States]. … The reinterpretation of Japan’s pacifist constitution by Abe Shinzo, the previous prime minister, has made military co-operation easier with America … allowing more detailed planning about how to respond to a Chinese attack on Taiwan, for example. “That’s as much the Japanese pushing us as it is us pushing them,” says Randall Schriver…

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