Professor Wang Xiangsui, a retired PLA Senior Colonel and prominent Chinese strategic scholar, notes that Sanae Takaichi’s actions are not only militarily futile but also strategically disruptive to the U.S. In a risky bid to prove her ’loyalty‘ by playing the Taiwan card, she is steering Japan’s alliance with the U.S. into uncharted and perilous waters. Trump’s latest statement proves: Sanae Takaichi’s playing of the Taiwan card is actually undermining Japan’s utility to the United States.

there are clips of Takaichi and Trump together here and I can’t get over how weird and inhuman they are