Krauthammer: China Our ‘Biggest Crisis Threat’ and ‘We Have No Stronger Ally in the Region than Japan’

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KRAUTHAMMER: “We’ve got to be very careful to look at the Japanese/U.S. relationship, purely through an economic lens, purely as a matter of trade. It’s a terrible mistake. One of the miraculous successes of U.S. Foreign policy since the second World War was the befriending of two terrible enemies, Germany and Japan, to the point where they’re our strongest allies in that region. And we did that through incredible statesmanship, Truman, Eisenhower and others, of course, and that is something that we have to be very careful about. If we want to talk about the balance of who pays for what, the Japanese actually pay for quite a lot of our soldiers of that cost, I think it’s more than half of soldiers in Okinawa which causes a lot of Japanese nationalist resentment against the U.S. I would tread carefully on there — on that. This is a region where China is a rising threat. Just yesterday, it sent its first aircraft carrier into the south China sea. It came near Taiwan. There’s a lot of trouble. I think this administration, the first four years of this administration, China is likely to be our biggest crisis threat and we’re going to need all the allies we can. We have no stronger ally in the region than Japan.”