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Why is Japan upset with Trump's car tariffs?
Donald Trump's announcement of tariffs on automobiles has absolutely pissed off the entire world, including Japan. Japan now says every option is on the table against Trump's 25% car tariffs. Japan's government warned on Thursday of a significant impact on its economic relations with the United States and on the global economy because of tariffs announced by Donald Trump.
Quote, we believe that the current measures and other broad-based trade restrictions by the U.S. government could have a significant impact on the economic relationship between Japan and the U.S., as well as on the global economy and the multilateral trading system, a spokesperson for the government said. Also, now as you're watching Japanese TV news programs,
certainly a pivot from how they were previously covering the United States and how they're dealing with U.S.-Japanese relations, which seems to be entering into a period now of instability due to Trump and Musk. Here, the commentators suggest that Japan, like Europe, needs to think about a foreign policy that does not rely on the U.S.
And of course, this is all happening as there is a coalition of the willing meeting in France with Emmanuel Macron and other leaders standing up with Ukraine. Then earlier this month, Donald Trump made the following aggressive statement towards Japan. Let's play this clip.
But we have an interesting deal with Japan that we have to protect them, but they don't have to protect us. You know that? That's the way the deal reads. We have to protect Japan. And by the way, they make a fortune with us economically. There's another case. But we have to protect Japan. But under no circumstances do they have to protect us. I actually ask, who makes these deals?
You make those deals, by the way, in your previous administration. By the way, the Washington Post headline is Japan, a car-making giant mulls appropriate response to Trump tariffs, and they are thinking how they are going to retaliate. Why don't we call in the former ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, also former mayor of Chicago, also former chief of staff to former President Obama.
Ambassador, what do you make of all of this? I mean, you know U.S.-Japanese relations better than anybody. What do you
make of all this i would take it at two points first japan's the number one foreign direct investor in the united states for the last four years consecutively over a million americans or a million americans work for japanese companies and nearly half of their investment goes to manufacturing so it's a kind of you know we're going to kind of be penny wise and dollar foolish here uh second
Japan hosts the largest military footprint the United States has anywhere in the world. It's the only country that has a permanent aircraft carrier. It is the long pole in our deterrence against China in the Indo-Pacific. And so, you know, nothing stays just in the economic lane. It's a relationship. So that means national security, diplomatic support.
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