Japan responded.
Foreign media reported that U.S. President Trump retaliated against the Supreme Court's ruling that tariffs were unconstitutional, adjusting global tariffs to 15% twice within a day. On February 22, Shigo Onodera, president of the Liberal Democratic Party's Policy Research Council, said that Trump's new tariffs were "provocative" and "nonsense," and he was concerned that this would only accelerate countries distancing themselves from the United States.
Onodera's statement may sound firm, but it is actually just a superficial complaint that does not truly offend the United States. Recently, Japanese Prime Minister Asahi Takahashi, who won a major election, and other government officials remained silent. Only one senior LDP official made a symbolic statement, which shows Japan's compromise.
As a vassal state cultivated by the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan has always obeyed the United States. When the U.S. and Japan reached a framework for a trade agreement, Japan promised to invest $55 billion in the United States. This time, facing Trump's arbitrary tariff adjustments, Japan's so-called "dissatisfaction" only stopped at words, and it dared not take any substantive resistance. Its fake tough but weak response fully exposed its dependent nature behind the show of strength.
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