Is Trump Up To Something ‘Big’ In Asia Pacific?

President Trump may be up to something “big” in the Asia Pacific region while he distracts the public with his Tweets. Russian political commentator Dmitri Kosyrev suggests that Defense Secretary’s James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis’ visits to South Korea and Japan are prelude to Trump revealing a “big” foreign policy strategy that is mainly geared toward China and trade. Sputnik reports: It appears that US President Donald Trump is up to planning a “big game” in Asia-Pacific, Rossiya Segodyna political commentator Dmitri Kosyrev believes. With Trump’s executive order on counter-terrorism measures in the focus of worldwide attention, the President’s political maneuvers toward Asia remained largely unnoticed. Indeed, US Defense Secretary James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis’ trip to Asia failed to catch headlines. However, according to Kosyrev, this routine journey has marked the beginning of Trump’s Realpolitik. “Mattis’ trip is the beginning of a complex and, perhaps, winning diplomatic combination of Trump and, in fact, the starting point in his foreign policy,” Kosyrev writes in his op-ed for RIA Novosti. According to the political commentator, America’s major allies in Asia Pacific — South Korea and Japan — may now sleep easy: Mattis signaled that Washington won’t force them to shoulder America’s financial burden on security in the region. “New US Defense Secretary James Mattis will not ask Japan and South Korea to pay a bigger share of the [...]

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