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Ep. 9: Why Japan Fears Trump More Than It Does China

The Big Story

By CQ Staff
Posted May 25, 2016 at 11:00am

As President Barack Obama heads to Japan for a summit of leaders of the Group of Seven, the world’s biggest economic powers, CQ Roll Call’s foreign policy reporter Rachel Oswald and Managing Editor Adriel Bettelheim dissect the significance of the visit, the president’s stop in Hiroshima and why Japan worries more about Trump than China.

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