{"id":244689,"date":"2025-10-28T02:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244689\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:24:07","slug":"trump-and-takaichi-sign-trade-and-rare-earths-deals-heralding-golden-age-of-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244689\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Takaichi sign trade and rare earths deals heralding ‘golden age’ of alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Takaichi sees US as partner in ‘new golden age’ of tiespublished at 01:59 GMT<\/p>\n

01:59 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Shaimaa Khalil
Tokyo correspondent<\/p>\n

So far, one remark stands out. President Trump is affording Ms Takaichi a lot of good will.<\/p>\n

“I want to just let you know – any time you have any question, any doubt, anything you want, any favors you need, anything I can do to help Japan, we will be there.” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a critical moment for Japan and for its new PM Sanae Takaichi – a defining early test of leadership. In her first face-to-face meeting with President Trump, she described him as a partner in a new golden age and praised his role in Middle East peace.<\/p>\n

President Trump praised Japan as “a great ally” and said he\u2019ll be there to help Japan whenever needed. But he\u2019s also pushing hard on trade and security, leaving Tokyo backed into a corner. <\/p>\n

Trump wants more US access to Japan\u2019s markets – especially in cars, agriculture, and technology. He\u2019s pressing Japan to buy more American rice and soybeans, and to open its market to US vehicles. <\/p>\n

Tokyo, heavily reliant on exports, can\u2019t afford a tariff fight – especially when it comes to its auto industry.
\nBut Takaichi also needs to protect domestic industries and doesn\u2019t want to anger crucial interest groups like the powerful farming lobby. <\/p>\n

For now, the tone is friendly. But there’s real pressure on Tokyo to deliver on agreements with little room to manoeuvre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Takaichi sees US as partner in ‘new golden age’ of tiespublished at 01:59 GMT 01:59 GMT Shaimaa KhalilTokyo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-244689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}