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Can Donald Trump save South Korea-Japan relations? IES Policy Brief Issue 2019/04, April 2019

Kim, Tongfi (2019) Can Donald Trump save South Korea-Japan relations? IES Policy Brief Issue 2019/04, April 2019. [Policy Paper]

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    Abstract

    President Trump is reportedly planning to demand payment from host countries of U.S. troops covering the entire cost of stationing plus 50 percent. Seoul and Tokyo should treat this so-called “Cost Plus 50” as a wake-up call to deal collaboratively with the threats their U.S. alliances are facing. South Korea and Japan need to coordinate their Special Measures Agreement negotiation strategies, not just to save money, but to preserve the long-term viability of U.S. alliances in East Asia. Above all, they must avoid buying U.S. favor at the expense of each other and appeasing U.S. adversaries such as China and Russia.

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    Item Type: Policy Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-US
    EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-Asia-general > East and Southeast Asia
    Subjects for EU documents: 1-test
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Institutional Author: European Union, November 1993 to date > Commission
    Series: Series > Institute for European Studies (Brussels) > Policy Briefs
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 23 Oct 2019 09:09
    Number of Pages: 4
    Last Modified: 23 Oct 2019 09:09
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/100403

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