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Post by Admin on May 29, 2019 7:52:52 GMT
President Trump’s visit to Japan was a success for that country, but foreign policy experts say it was more of a wash for the United States.
Facing upcoming parliamentary elections and an ongoing threat from North Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was able to showcase the strength of his country’s alliance with the U.S. to both domestic and foreign rivals.
He also got the visual imagery he had hoped for — Trump as the first foreign leader to meet the new Emperor Naruhito, dining and playing golf with Abe and visiting a Japanese helicopter carrier that is being converted so it can handle F-35B short-takeoff-and-landing jet fighters that Lockheed Martin hopes to sell.
“From Japan’s point-of-view, Abe got everything he wanted out of this visit,” says Daniel Sneider, an Asia expert at Stanford University.
But foreign policy experts both inside and outside the Administration say the president’s very public breaks with National Security Adviser John Bolton’s and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s aggressive stands on Iran and North Korea during the trip will fuel new confusion among allies and adversaries about U.S. policy toward the two countries.
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Post by Admin on Jun 2, 2019 17:35:31 GMT
The U.S. Navy has acknowledged that a request was made to hide the USS John S. McCain during President Donald Trump's recent state visit to Japan. "A request was made to the U.S. Navy to minimize the visibility of USS John S. McCain, however, all ships remained in their normal configuration during the President's visit," Rear Admiral Charlie Brown, chief of information, said in a statement to NBC News. "There were also no intentional efforts to explicitly exclude Sailors assigned to USS John S. McCain," the statement said. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Friday he’d asked his chief of staff to “look into” the reported request from the White House to move the ship "out of sight" during Trump's visit.
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