What Tokyo can teach its Western allies about doing business with China.
Illustration by Nate Kitch
When Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, welcomes Western leaders to the Group of Seven summit this week, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be front of mind. The summit, after all, is taking place in Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped the first nuclear bomb in World War II, and all of the G7 countries — the U.S., the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada — have deplored Russia for its “irresponsible nuclear rhetoric” and military aggression.
But for Japan especially, the
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Agriculture has traditionally been a fruitful area for China-U.S. cooperation, dating back to the two countries’ resumption of diplomatic relations in the 1970s. Now it is just another area marked by Sino-American distrust, as Washington hunts Chinese agriscience “spies” and Beijing races to reduce reliance on U.S. farm exports.
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