Posted on 08/30/2016 2:05:27 PM PDT by chajin
A senior Russian official says President Vladimir Putin will visit Japan in December.
Putin's foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, briefed local media on Tuesday on the upcoming talks between Putin and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The 2 leaders are to meet in Vladivostok on Friday on the sidelines of an economic forum.
Ushakov said Putin's long-delayed visit will take place in December. He said the agenda for the summit will be discussed by the 2 leaders when they meet on Friday.
He said Moscow and Tokyo have already agreed on the date of Putin's visit, and it will be announced after arrangements are made with the Japanese side.
Ushakov said Putin and Abe will also exchange views on Friday on a peace treaty. He said Russia is ready to continue negotiations on the matter.
Senior officials from Japan and Russia discussed a peace treaty twice after a summit in May.
The countries haven't signed one since the end of World War Two because of the dispute over 4 islands.
Russia controls the islands, which are called the Northern Territories in Japan. The Japanese government maintains that they are an inherent part of the nation's territory. It says the islands were illegally occupied after World War Two.
Down the road this may be strategic, in that Russia, Japan, and the U. S. could develop a unilateral opposition to China’s brazen activities.
Russia should realize, the stronger and more bold China gets, the bigger headache it becomes for Russia.
If Russia develops better relations with the West and Japan, that would pretty much make China an axis of yuan.
Or Russia could be persuading Japan that it can replace America ensuring free flow of Japan-bound oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
Yes, there could be down side too.
I do think Japan has become a good Allie to the U. S., and I don’t see that changing.
Wonder if they’ll be a deal on the Sakhalin Islands.
I hope so.
The whole episode at the end of WW2 was as much of a strategic blunder by the allies as leaving E. Europe to Stalin.
We seriously didnt need the USSR involved in that theater, and in the end we ended up helping Mao, creating N. Korea, and needlessly bringing the USSR way too close to Hokkaido when they were never even at war with Japan.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82969&page=1
Russia and Japan, two demographic basket cases, find each other.
Is this a “good behavior” trip ?
Japan and Russia have a few foreign policy objectives in common, including the containing of China's hegemony, the free flow of fossil fuels (out of Russia, into Japan), squashing jihadi terrorism, and co-operation in Pacific trawling.
Since none of this counteracts anything that (should be) American foreign policy, a tri-partite summit would make sense, some time after Trump moves into the White House. If Hillary! somehow moves back instead, Japan might begin to play Russia against America for its own self-preservation, both political and economic.
Thanks for the link; I hadn’t seen this covered in any domestic news sources, and it probably won’t make the evening news (not that I have watched the evening news for the last two decades or so).
Yep
I see a stronger US-Russia alliance in the future, after all there are several advantages:
1. US & Russia are WESTERN societies with a common super-enemy (ISLAM). Japan also fears Islamic terrorism.
2. Given Merkel’s huge 1,000,000 male muslim “refugee” blunder and decades of cheap muslim labor in the EU, anyone who studies the demographic projections for Europe will know that Europe will be a majority Muslim zone in just decades. So Europe can’t be counted upon. And the nukes in France will be at the hands of Muzzies.
The EU is totally hosed in the future, so why spend a cent more of our defense budget on them. Instead, given the bleak Euro demographic future, we should just give Europe to the Russians and let Putin strongarm the problem better than we or the EU would do.
Trump understands this and understands that Putin can be an ally in the future. Japan will likely always be our ally.
Any plan that includeds handing Europe to Russia is a non-starter with me.
Russia is already too big, and adding in all of Europe? NO!
Europe can deport just as easily as it imported.
It just need to pull its head out and get to work.
The tide is turning. Britain, Germany, Poland, those folks have woken up to what is going on.
In the next few years, I think we’ll be amazed at how Europe faces up to it’s problem, and takes action to stop it.
That’s the main reason why dropping Fat Man and Little Boy was a good thing. It kept Japan from being divided, like Korea.
Gosh, I sure like to hear your optimism for the EU and I sure hope it works out that way.
The Eastern Bloc gets it, but I just can’t see a way that the foolish Politically Correct Left Wing Socialists who run the EU can turn the tide.
They still think “deporting” is inhumane and racist. How to overcome that? Are you seeing something that I don’t?
BrExit
German distaste for Merkle Growing
Poland has been making comments
France being in between Britain and Germany would have a motivation to join in.
Spain can’t be far behind.
There’s only so much the citizens of these nations are going to take, I don’t care if you’re a leftist nut or not.
Look what’s happening here.
IMO, the Left is about to collapse here.
Trump is addressing things that mean he’ll be rolling back Leftist nonsense about 20-40 years.
We know that Global Warming won’t get any support under him. I think he’ll move to strike down any moves in that direction that have already taken place.
He wants less regulation and taxes. He wants more negotiations that are good for the U. S. The Left and the globalists are the ones that wrote them the last time.
He wants the border under control, and we won’t see any massive influx of other nation’s children under him. (strictly my opinion)
What has been going on is sheer nuts, and when the U. S. puts the brakes on, I think the people in other nations are going to take notice and demand the same thing, especially when the results come in.
We’ll see. We have to get him elected first.
Trump is going to work to settle down the restless natives. I think he and Putin may get along okay.
Then again, Putin could do something to test him early on.
We’ll see.
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