According to the US president, the deal involves $550 Bn in Japanese investments and expanded market access for American cars, rice, and other agricultural goods.
Fentanyl is considered a major driver of the US opioid crisis. US-China conflict stems from allegations that Beijing insufficiently regulates exports of precursor chemicals for fentanyl.
Japan sent a lower-level delegate to the NATO summit. Chinese analysts frame it as a broader strategic awakening: a resistance to Cold War-style blocs imposed by external powers.
Trump met Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba at the White House after the former's comments on possibly absorbing Canada as a US state, Greenland, etc have raised concerns among US allies.
Under the plan, the U.S. would deploy missile units to the Nansei Islands of Japan's southwestern Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures, and to the Philippines, the report says.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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