Trump Demands Tokyo Quadruple Payments for U.S. Military Troops in Japan

With both South Korea and Japan, these shakedowns are a feature, not a bug, to get to “no.” To give Trump an excuse to reduce the US footprint or remove it altogether. Which seems increasingly to be the ultimate aim, for some at least, in the Administration. https://t.co/I3MILVELra

— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) November 16, 2019