"I don't see how the U.S. doesn't turn its guns to Japan" after NAFTA and China, said Robert Uriu, professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. "Japan is in this terrible dilemma. They don't trust what the U.S. is doing, but in terms of their current options, especially with a rising China, I think they're seeing they don't have much of a choice, so they have to somehow placate the United States."

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