▲ On October 28, 2025 local time, in Tokyo, Japan, Japanese Prime Minister Sahari Takashi and U.S. President Trump held talks at the guesthouse and signed a joint document. Picture/IC photo
The first diplomatic show of High City Morning Foot was a big leak.
According to foreign media reports, Japan's prime minister, Cao Cao, held a meeting with U.S. President Trump in Tokyo's Yuan赤坂 reception hall on the morning of October 28th. This was the first face-to-face meeting between the two after Cao Cao Yuan became Japan's prime minister.
The relevant video shows that when the parade began, the high market morning morning morning asked Trump to walk in her left hand, and Trump thought he wanted to stand still. After the high market morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning in the back of the high market morning morning morning morning only rushed to the direction of the ceremony, and then laughed after him. After a week, Trump thought to introduce the connection with the members of the cabinet, and the high market morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning.
This diplomatic incident, because Trump did not pay attention to the relatively "simple" process of parade, was just another recurrence of Trump's normalized diplomatic failure.In July 2018, Trump visited Britain and jointly reviewed the ceremony with the British queen Elizabeth II, who was still alive at the time, also walked in front of the queen, shutting the queen behind.
But for high-cost Japanese-U.S. allies, such a start is not a good sign.In fact, more than this has embarrassed Japan.
US Secretary of Commerce arrives in Japan
Among the high-ranking U.S. officials who met with Trump at the same time, was Commerce Secretary Lutnik, who recently arrived in Japan a day earlier and his main job was to urge Japan to implement the investment agreement with the U.S. as soon as possible.
In July this year, Japan and the United States reached a tariff agreement under Trump's threat to impose high auto tariffs on Japan. The United States will impose a unified 15% tariff on Japanese goods, including automobiles. In exchange, Japan committed to establishing a $550 billion government(About 80 trillion yen)The “Investment Instrument”.
The agreement calls for the establishment of an investment committee, chaired by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, with the U.S. President selecting suitable investment targets from the list of investments recommended by the committee. Japan will join the advisory committee to provide advice to the Investment Committee.
Trump also specifically pointed out on social media that Japan was “under my order” the investment promised.In addition, the United States will receive 90% of the investment profit.
Although Japanese officials initially argued that the funds were not funded by government finances, but were invested by government affiliates such as the Bank of Japan International Partnership, and could only invest $5.5 billion to $11 billion during Trump’s term.
Japanese Senate Budget Committee members described the Japan-U.S. tariff agreement as equivalent to a “Memorandum of Understanding on the Inequalities of the Era of令和”, which is a matter of convenience.
How much gold is in the New Golden Age?
The US$550 billion investment project document signed by Japan and the United States is part of a series of documents signed by the United States and Japan during Trump's visit to Japan. These documents have been touted as a sign that US-Japan relations have entered a "new golden age."
What is the gold content of the "New Golden Age" in the United States? another important document in this pile gives the truth.
The main content of the document is that the United States and Japan will strengthen cooperation on important mineral supply chains, including rare earth.The agreement stipulates that in the next six months, the two sides will launch a number of key projects to establish key mineral reserves and jointly build a more independent and safe supply chain.
Japan lacks critical minerals, with only 16 million tons of large-scale rare earth mines discovered near the waters of the Kawasaki Archipelago in 2011, said to be enough for 730 years for all humans to use, but the technology to develop these rare earth under the sea is not available.
The fact is that in 2010, because of the Sino-Japanese ship collision, China implemented rare earth export control measures against Japan for the first time. Since then, Japan has signed rare earth cooperation agreements with many other countries. Now, 15 years have passed, and Japan's dependence on China's rare earths is still as high as 60%.
The fact is that not only Japan, the world is not lacking in rare earth, and even less Japanese rare earth is still at the bottom of the sea. The problem is that other countries, except China, currently basically do not master the refining technology to separate rare earth elements, especially heavy rare earth.
In this regard, the U.S.-Japan Mineral Supply Chain Cooperation Document is just a superficially beautiful and useless diplomatic outcome.
A beautiful diplomatic performance.
It can be seen that for Trump's visit to Japan, takaichi sanae's coping strategy is to try his best to please him.
Since the Trump 2.0 period, not only has the high market had a good pleasure for Trump, nor has NATO Secretary-General Luther and others had a good pleasure.But unlike other politicians' tactics based on verbal compliments, the high market had just taken office and intended to pay a real price.
This is true of $550 billion investment projects, boosting defense spending to 2% of GDP two years ahead of schedule, and a rare earth cooperation agreement out of touch with reality. Only recommending Trump to participate in the Nobel Peace Prize is a gratuitous meeting gift.
After paying such a great price, sanae takaichi finally won Trump's evaluation of "one of the greatest prime ministers", even though the two were actually just getting acquainted. In contrast, some Japanese netizens don't rate Takaichi Sanae's charming diplomacy highly.
From this perspective, the leak that appeared during the one-minute parade accompanying Trump can be seen as a small prelude to the opening of high-market diplomatic activities.
Written by / Xu Liwan (column writer)
Publisher / Delayed