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investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong This is a CBS, I in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Gordon Chang at Gordon

G Chang, my colleague and co-host and friend, Gordon, Japan and the United States, this last year, beginning in January of

2023 when the Prime Minister Kishita met with the President, Mr. Biden, in Washington.

How would you characterize Tokyo and Washington

working together or on parallel tracks this last year?

Good evening, Gordon.

Good evening, John. The US-Japan relationship, which was already close, is even closer still this year.

And another element to this is that the relationship between Japan and South Korea has grown

closer, largely because there's a new president in Seoul, Junsu Kyol, who believes it is important to have these robust relationships with

Tokyo when it comes to the defense of all three countries. We go to a colleague of

ours Yoko Ishii who very much watches social media, on social

media she's random Yoko, watching this development all year, tissue with Mr. Biden in the White House, but what about the Japanese public, especially

the young public? The millennials in Gen Z, watching their elders look towards China as a threat,

watching their elders make relationships with the United States, the Philippines, Australia, it could lead to armed conflict.

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