Will the Trump-Xi wartime ally nostalgia prompt a Japanese rethink on China ties?
Both presidents harked back at the summit to when their countries fought side by side against Japan, generating unease in Tokyo
Both Trump and Xi repeatedly invoked their nations’ wartime alliance against Japan in their remarks – an unusual historical reference that immediately unsettled Tokyo.
Takaichi said on Friday that Tokyo and Washington were “allies bound by very strong ties” based on mutual trust. But she pointedly declined to comment on the Trump-Xi summit.
