Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao reported on Wednesday: "Japan failed to obtain an immediate reduction of US tariffs on Wednesday. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said after talks with Economic Revitalization Minister Akira Terashima, who led a delegation to Washington for negotiations, 'The future negotiations will not be easy, but President Trump indicated that Japan would be given the highest priority in negotiations.'"
It was reported that Trump unexpectedly participated in the trade negotiations with Japanese officials on Wednesday and stated that significant progress had been made.
From the various details of this US-Japan trade negotiation, Japan displayed an extremely humiliated posture, continuing the humiliation during the US-Japan trade friction period when Japan was led by the nose by the United States.
This time, Trump personally participated in the negotiations and forcibly included issues completely unrelated to the negotiations, such as the costs of the U.S. military stationed in Japan. Japan, however, had no ability to counter. Japan originally intended to discuss only trade and investment fields but had to respond passively to these unreasonable demands. Its negotiation autonomy was completely trampled, unable to dominate the agenda, and could only passively accept the U.S. arrangements.
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