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Takaichi and Trump

Trump’s administration joins Japan in supporting the yen

Japan remains the largest foreign holder of US government debt, with more than $1 trillion in US Treasury securities. If Japan were forced to sell large quantities of Treasuries in order to finance repeated intervention to support the yen, this could put upward pressure on US Treasury yields and increase US borrowing costs. The United States therefore also has an interest in preventing a disorderly yen crisis.

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Xi Jinping and Sanae Takaichi face each other

Japanese-Chinese tensions on the rise

The region has a strong tradition of anti-imperialist and revolutionary struggle. Imperialist domination of China was ended by the revolution of 1949. Never a socialist society, Maoist China was a bonapartist state leaning on measures of land reform and state ownership in its early stages, before reverting to an openly capitalist, now imperialist world power. US imperialism was unable to escape defeat either in Korea or Vietnam. The Japanese masses too during the Anro movement used militant tactics to resist militarism and the domination of Japan by US imperialism.  

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