Japan’s Shinzo Abe to Address Security Alliance at Meeting With Donald Trump

The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 17, 2016 | Felicia Schwartz

[monkapotamus]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ahead of a meeting with Donald Trump in New York, said he wants to establish an understanding with the president-elect about the Japanese-U.S. security alliance, which Mr. Abe said is vital to Japanese security.

“This is an alliance that lives and breathes only when there is trust, and it is precisely that relationship of trust which I would like to build with President-elect Trump,” Mr. Abe said before leaving Japan.

Japanese and Trump transition officials said the meeting wasn’t a “full-fledged” gathering but an opportunity for the leaders to get to know one another. A Japanese official said the sides didn’t exchange agendas and talking points, as they would in a formal summit...

Mr. Trump hasn’t yet been in contact with officials at the State Department, National Security Council or Pentagon about his visit with Mr. Abe, and the president-elect had no briefing materials from them ahead of his meeting with Mr. Abe.

“There’s been no outreach to date,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday. “We stand ready to support him and his team with any information that they might require, either in advance of or on the back end of these conversations.”

Kellyanne Conway, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager and a top adviser, said Thursday that Mr. Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence will meet Mr. Abe at 5 p.m.

[CapitalistCrusader]

I'm not tired of winning yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ht21MJkk8s

[Harpotoo]

Does that mean they will start as the Libs say “Paying their Fair Share”?-)

[Kickass Conservative]

They just figured out Trump is Lord Toranaga.

[DoodleDawg]

Mr. Trump rattled officials in Tokyo and elsewhere during the campaign when he suggested that Japan may need to obtain its own nuclear weapons, rather than be protected by the U.S. nuclear umbrella, and said allies must pay more to support U.S. troops in their countries or risk their removal.

I hope Abe brought his checkbook.