Ichika Matsumoto: Japan keeps asking the US ‘What do you want?’ during trade talks and Trump administration ‘Could Not Explain What They Wanted from Japan’

The MAGA Art of the Deal is simply blackmail and then ask ‘What Are You Offering?’ That’s all.

According to pseudo Sun Tze, the best way to deal with the situation is simply tell the blackmailer “Go Fuck Yourself”?

No idea, anyway… Here is the story:-

‘What do you want?’: Veteran diplomat says Trump administration ‘could not explain what they wanted’ to Japan during trade talks

According to Freeman, the Japanese delegation visiting Washington during the Trump administration was met with bewildering ambiguity

Japan keeps asking the US what it wants in trade talks and can’t get an answer

Japanese negotiators went home on Friday

Fox Business’ Charlie Gasparino reports:

Japanese negotiators are complaining that the problem with the trade negotiations with the White House, what’s delaying concrete progress and a real deal, is that US keeps changing its ask in terms of exactly what it wants, said one financial CEO who speaks regularly to country officials. Maybe it’s a negotiating tactic. But the lack of publicly announced deal progress is depressing the dollar, spiking bond yields and leading to a flight to quality to gold and now Bitcoin.

In a stinging critique of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense and veteran diplomat Chas Freeman has revealed just how disorganized Washington appeared during high-stakes negotiations—especially with key allies like Japan.

According to Freeman, the Japanese delegation visiting Washington during the Trump administration was met with bewildering ambiguity. Speaking about the meeting, Freeman, during an interview on the YouTube channel, recounted: “Their experience apparently was they went to talk to the American leadership on this matter, and the American leadership said ‘what are you offering?’ And the Japanese said ‘well, what is it that you want?’ And the Americans could not explain what they wanted.”

The Japanese have just been in Washington. Their experience apparently was they went to talk to the American leadership on this matter, and the American leadership said ‘what are you offering?’ And the Japanese said ‘well, what is it that you want?’ And the Americans could not explain what they wanted.’

The Art of the Deal, evidently. If I’m one of those countries, I would make a whole bunch of promises that sound good in a headline, like buying fighter planes and whatnot … then just not do those things. You’re probably only going to have to leg it out until the mid-terms.