US will need Japan more as tensions with China rise, says ex-Japanese envoy


TOKYO (Bloomberg): Friction between the United States and China means Washington will need Japan more than before, regardless of who wins the presidential election, according to a foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

"US relations with Japan and East Asian policies are likely to become relatively more important" as China becomes more powerful, former diplomat Kunihiko Miyake said in an interview on Thursday (Nov 5), while the US election result remained unclear.

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