The media reported on the threat of a major crisis in relations between the United States and Japan

Relations between the United States and Japan are threatened by the largest crisis in the last 25 years due to the trade policy of American President Donald Trump. This was reported by The Financial Times on July 14.

"US-Japanese relations are perhaps in the worst state in the last generation, starting in the late 1990s, when there were serious trade tensions and fundamental questions arose about the shape of the alliance after the Cold War," Christopher Johnson, an expert at The Asia Group consulting company, is quoted in the publication.

As noted by "Gazeta.En", Trump's tough approach and the Japanese government's inability to adapt to the changing conditions of cooperation could lead to destabilization and conflation of trade and security issues.

As noted in the publication, there is now an unusually serious misunderstanding and distrust between the United States and Japan. One of the reasons was Tokyo's expectation of trade preferences from Washington, which were eventually not accepted by the Trump administration.

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