Are you optimistic that we can avoid hostility, greater hostility with China? Especially anything that would turn to military intervention, that would require military intervention? Our relationship with Japan is rocky because of the tariffs. South Korea, you know, Australia, the Philippines, they all have their challenges. But those security relationships, those cultural relationships, those people to people ties, and the economic partnerships have not fundamentally been shifted. (26:06–26:10)
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Asserts that the U.S. relationship with Japan is strained due to tariffs.
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