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Article: Japan considers the nature of its links with US after treaty; talks
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- The Press
- Article date:
- July 3, 1996
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The recent summit meeting between President Clinton and the Prime
Minister of Japan has raised some difficult questions about Japanese
strategic interests after the Cold War. STUART McMILLAN reports.
If the US was not there, rivalries to become the dominant power
almost certainly emerge.
I t was not the Japan that can say ``no'' that is responding to
the greater co-operation proposals in the affirmation of the United
States-Japan security treaty in April but one that is saying ``not
yet.'' Japan is giving itself at least a year, perhaps two years,
before it gives its full response.
The affirmation came in the summit meeting between President Bill
Clinton and the Prime Minister of Japan, ...