Lowy Institute, Sydney, via Taipei, Tokyo, HK, S'hai, Beijing, London, DC. Author of The Party on CCP; Asia's Reckoning, on China v Japan + XJP: The Backlash.
Jan 16, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The lengthy list of commitments by China to purchase American goods reminds me of US-Japan trade negotiations decades ago which had similar haggling.... #USChinatrade 1/
Here are excerpts of Kakuei Tanaka and Kissinger discussing how to get the bi-lateral deficit with Japan down in the early 1970s, in the early days of the 'Japan threat'.... /2
