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US President Donald Trump with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on September 26, 2018, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Photo: AFP/ Nicholas Kamm

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Trump shoves Abe into bilateral free trade talks

by William Pesek September 28, 2018February 18, 2020

Shinzo Abe: Ford Motor Company salesman? That, essentially, appears to be the future Donald Trump envisions for Japan’s prime minister. Not in so many words, of course. But reading between the lines of what the “Art the Deal” president was seeking from this week’s US-Japan trade talks in New York, Abe’s expected role is written […]