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RandySF

(59,813 posts)
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 01:55 AM Nov 2017

Trump warns China it could face big problem with warrior nation Japan over North Korea

U.S. leader Donald Trump warned China on Thursday, a day before departing on his first Asia tour as president, that it must do more to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions or face “a big problem” with “warrior nation” Japan.

“Japan is a warrior nation, and I tell China and I tell everyone else that listens, I mean, you’re gonna have yourself a big problem with Japan pretty soon if you allow this to continue with North Korea,” Trump said in an interview on the Fox News program “The Ingraham Angle.”

It was unclear what the U.S. leader was referring to, in terms of a “big problem,” but Trump had suggested during his successful campaign for president that he would be open to Japan acquiring its own nuclear weapons.

China has looked warily at recent moves to loosen postwar constraints imposed on Japan’s military and has long been suspicious of Tokyo’s large plutonium stockpile.

Trump is scheduled to visit Japan from Sunday, when he will meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has joined the U.S. president in his “maximum pressure” approach to nuclear-armed North Korea.

He will also visit China from Wednesday to Thursday and meet President Xi Jinping.


https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/03/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-warns-china-face-big-problem-warrior-nation-japan-north-korea/#.Wf1V4baZMh8

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global1

(25,298 posts)
4. Why Would Anyone Of These Asian Nations....
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 02:07 AM
Nov 2017

listen to or take Trump seriously. The leaders of these Asian Nations are bigly smarter than Trump.

dweller

(23,709 posts)
5. ya think?
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 02:08 AM
Nov 2017

"It was unclear what the U.S. leader was referring to"

just babbley word salad pompous poo...
the usual

Kablooie

(18,648 posts)
6. So he doesn't realize Japan has been a dedicated pacifist country ever since WWII.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 02:10 AM
Nov 2017

He probably thinks there are samurai warriors and kamikaze pilots they will attack China with.

(Japan is beginning to consider dropping their pacifist code because Trump has shown they can't always rely on their ally, America, to support them.)

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wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
7. The leaders of our allies should tell Trump to shut up and sit down. He has no ability to be a
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 02:25 AM
Nov 2017

world leader.

He's just a dumb fuck elected by other dumb fucks and listened to by even more dumb fucks,

Hekate

(91,042 posts)
8. This is 100 times worse than vomiting on the Prime Minister. At least Bush Sr had the flu.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 02:29 AM
Nov 2017

Christ on a trailer hitch, what a national embarrassment.

NBachers

(17,191 posts)
11. Bad enough pitting the US population against itself; now he inflames China - Japanese resentment.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 05:12 AM
Nov 2017

If only I could push a button and send trump and all his supporters to the Giant Bug and Worm Planet.

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