古村治彦です。
ドナルド・トランプ大統領が衝撃の発言を行ったという報道が出ました。今年６月の日米首脳会談中、トランプ大統領が安倍晋三首相に対して、対日貿易赤字問題や米朝交渉に関して話し合いをしている中で、安倍首相に対して「私は真珠湾を忘れない」という発言を行った、と報じられました。安倍首相に対して不満を表明する中で、禁句とも言うべき言葉を使ってしまったということです。
以下の記事によると、トランプ大統領は安倍首相と８回も会談し、電話会談は２６回に及ぶということで、外国の指導者の中でも緊密な関係を築いているということです。最近までは、トランプ大統領は安倍首相について批判がましいことは全く言ったことがなかったということをホワイトハウス、国務省、日本政府関係者は揃って証言しています。
しかし、最近になって、対日貿易赤字問題と米朝交渉に関して、トランプ大統領は日本を批判し、それに対して日本側も不満をためているというのが現状のようです。
安倍首相は日米関係を強化するために、トランプ大統領との個人的な関係強化を図ってきました。そのためにゴルフが有効だと思えば、高価なゴルフクラブを贈り、一緒にゴルフをプレーして回りました。そして、アメリカ側のいうことには何でも従い、トランプ大統領からは「素晴らしい友人」という評価を受けてきました。
しかし、トランプ大統領は、日本の世界的における影響力が低下し、存在感が消えつつある中で、日本のことなど眼中にはないようです。そして、安倍首相の熱心な迎合も、「真珠湾のことは忘れない」というトランプ大統領の一言でおじゃんになってしまいました。
この言葉を言われたくないがために、戦後日本はアメリカに屈従してきましたし、安倍首相も見苦しいほどの阿諛追従をしてきましたが、結局、この言葉を言われてしまいました。これは、安倍首相の路線が間違っていたということも言えますが、日本はアメリカから経済的利益を得てばかりのずるい国という遅れた認識しかトランプ大統領は持っていないということです。
トランプ大統領の発言や政策は１９８０年代のアメリカ民主党の日本叩きと全く同じです。その当時トランプ大統領は民主党支持者だった訳ですから、習い性となるということなのかもしれません。
しかし、日本側にしてみれば、これはチャンスかもしれません。「そうですか、アメリカ側はそんなことを言うのですか」ということで、対米自立、アメリカに対してもっと言いたいことを言うための機会にしたいところです。しかし、今の安倍政権ではそれは無理でしょう。これではただ言われっぱなし、やられっぱなしということになります。いつものことと言えばそれまでですが。
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●「トランプ大統領「真珠湾忘れぬ」と安倍首相に不満＝7月に日朝高官が極秘接触」
8/29(水) 6:23配信
時事通信
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20180829-00000008-jij-n_ame
【ワシントン時事】米紙ワシントン・ポスト（電子版）は28日、6月の日米首脳会談でトランプ大統領が「私は真珠湾を忘れない」と述べ、対日貿易赤字問題などをめぐり安倍晋三首相に強い不満を表明したと報じた。
両首脳は北朝鮮問題でも対立したという。
同紙はまた、7月に日朝情報当局高官がベトナムで極秘に接触し、事前に知らされていなかった米側が、不快感を示したとも伝えた。
同紙によると、トランプ氏は安倍首相に対し、2国間通商協定の交渉を促したが、首相は断った。トランプ氏は牛肉と自動車の市場開放も求めた。貿易や対北朝鮮政策をめぐり日米の立場の違いが鮮明になる中、トランプ氏の不満が詳細に伝えられたのは初めて。
6月の会談は、同12日の北朝鮮の金正恩朝鮮労働党委員長との初の米朝首脳会談に先立ち、ワシントンで7日に行われ、北朝鮮問題が焦点となった。安倍首相は、北朝鮮の非核化が具体化するまで、米韓合同軍事演習の中止や朝鮮戦争終結宣言を思いとどまるようトランプ氏に助言していたが、同紙は、首相に近い人物の話として「安倍氏の提案は完全に無視された」と指摘した。
同紙によると、7月の日朝情報当局の極秘接触では、北村滋内閣情報官と、「キム・ソンヘ」という人物が会談したという。聯合ニュースは、キム・ソンヘ氏の肩書を統一戦線部統一戦線策略室長と伝えた。拉致問題について話し合ったとみられる。
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‘I remember Pearl Harbor’: Inside Trump’s
hot and cold relationship with Japan’s prime minister
By John Hudson and Josh Dawsey
August 28 at 11:07 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/i-remember-pearl-harbor-inside-trumps-hot-and-cold-relationship-with-japans-prime-minister/2018/08/28/d6117021-e310-40a4-b688-68fdf5ed2f38_story.html?utm_term=.b4d1c79c84ec
During a tense meeting at the White House
in June, President Trump caught Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe off guard
with a pointed remark.
“I remember Pearl Harbor,” the president
said, referring to the surprise attack that propelled the United States into
World War II.
Trump then launched into a blistering
critique of Japan’s economic policies, according to people familiar with the
conversation. He railed against the U.S. trade deficit with Japan and urged Abe
to negotiate a bilateral trade deal that is more favorable to U.S. exporters of
beef and automobiles.
The meeting, which left Abe exasperated,
epitomized the paradoxical nature of Trump’s closest relationship with a
foreign leader.
The two men have a tight rapport — Trump
has met with Abe eight times, more than with any other counterpart, and talked
to him on the phone 26 times. White House aides say they joke about golf, with
Trump complimenting Abe on his agile moves while ribbing him about video
footage that appears to show him falling into a sand bunker. Trump sees Abe as
a savvy negotiator and a worthy counterpart — unlike many other world leaders
who draw his derision. He calls Abe his “good friend.”
“I’ve never heard him [trash]-talk Abe. And
you can’t say that about a lot of the world leaders,” said a U.S. official,
who, like other White House, State Department and Japanese government officials
interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a
crucial bilateral relationship.
But in recent months, the president’s
unorthodox approach to North Korea and deeply negative view of Japan’s trade
practices have locked Trump and Abe in a series of agree-to-disagree
stalemates, to the growing frustration of Tokyo.
The rift marks a disappointing turn for
Abe, who invested heavily in a personal relationship with Trump, publicly
praising his “outstanding” and “remarkable leadership,” lavishing him with a
$3,800 gold-plated golf club and refusing to retaliate against his steel and
aluminum tariffs even as other U.S. allies took swift reciprocal measures
against American bourbon, corn and motorcycles.
Abe has little to show for his efforts.
Japan was the only major U.S. ally that did not receive temporary exemption
from the metals tariffs, and it now faces the prospect of new automobile
tariffs — a move tantamount to economic warfare in a country where the car
industry is closely linked to the national psyche.
“Abe hoped his relationship with Trump
would translate into strong bilateral relations. But on both the security and
economic fronts, he has faced major setbacks,” said Shihoko Goto, a Japan
expert at the Wilson Center, a Washington think tank.
The stakes are high for the Trump
administration, which needs a strong alliance with Japan to offset the loss of
influence from the president’s withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership,
an 11-nation trade pact designed to keep America rooted in the most
economically vibrant region of the world.
Japanese officials say Trump misstates
economic data during meetings and rebuffs advice on North Korea. In phone calls
and meetings ahead of Trump’s landmark summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore in
June, Abe repeatedly advised Trump not to halt military exercises with South
Korea or entertain an agreement to formally end the Korean War until North
Korea takes concrete steps to denuclearize.
“Abe was completely ignored,” said a person
close to the Japanese prime minister.
“His lieutenants are resigned to Trump now
being uncontrollable by Jim Mattis or John Kelly and think John Bolton has even
more limited influence,” he said, referring to the defense secretary, the White
House chief of staff and Trump’s national security adviser.
The uncertainty has fueled concerns that
Trump could overrule his top aides and put the U.S. troop presence in Okinawa
or Seoul on the table to secure a nuclear deal with North Korea. Following
Abe’s combative meeting with Trump in June, Japanese officials reached out to
Trump confidantes to better understand where he was coming from.
U.S. officials deny that any plans are
being considered to change the U.S. force posture, but they make no apology for
the tough discussions between the two leaders on trade.
“The president has been frank from the
start with Prime Minister Abe,” a senior administration official said. “We’re
going to start taking measures that are designed to inject greater reciprocity
into the relationship, that are going to force partners around the world to
share the burden of upholding the international system. If we want it to
continue, then it’s got to work for the United States, which is the biggest
member of the grouping.”
During heated exchanges, Japanese officials
say Abe waits for Trump to make his point, and finds an opening later on in the
conversation to rebut him. “He understands if he categorically denies what the
president says, it might hurt the president’s pride,” one Japanese diplomat
said.
Another diplomat said that he could not
explain Trump’s Pearl Harbor reference but added that the president relishes
historical references and frequently brings up Japan's “samurai past.”
“Although disturbing, this rhetoric hardly
veers from Trump’s comments against Japan on the campaign trail,” said Goto,
the Japan scholar. “His views of the Japanese economy then were based on the
perceptions of the 1980s and ’90s, rather than the realities of today. So it
may not be a surprise if his worldview, especially of Asia, is derived back
from World War II, rather than today.”
Officials on both sides of the Pacific say
that the foundations of the U.S.-Japan relationship remain strong and that Abe
speaks with Trump more easily and frequently than he did with President Obama.
But Tokyo’s patience on key economic and
security issues appears to be wearing thin.
This summer, the Japanese concealed a
meeting they held with North Korea from senior U.S. officials, according to
people familiar with the matter. The secret meeting, which has not previously
been reported, took place in July in Vietnam between a top Japanese
intelligence official, Shigeru Kitamura, and a senior North Korean official in
charge of reunification, Kim Song Hye. Senior U.S. officials expressed
irritation that Japan wasn’t forthright about the meeting, given Washington’s
near-constant updates to Tokyo on its dealings with North Korea.
A Japanese official said he could not
comment on meetings with intelligence officials. But officials in Tokyo have
acknowledged that to negotiate the return of Japanese abductees in North Korea,
they can’t solely rely on the Trump administration to lobby on Japan’s behalf.
Japan has also been more willing to break
with the United States on trade. Abe personally rebuffed Trump’s overture for a
bilateral trade deal during the White House meeting in June. A month later,
Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, categorically rejected the
offer in even more forceful language. “Japan is not going to do anything with
any country that harms the national interest,” Suga told reporters.
On Thursday, Japan’s trade minister
publicly warned that Tokyo would retaliate if Trump follows through on his
threat to impose a 25 percent tariff on Japanese automobile imports.
Abe does not regret investing in his
relationship with Trump, Japanese officials said. Tokyo believes strains would
be far worse off without the personal rapport, and senior officials routinely
praise Mattis for helping boost defense cooperation.
“Without the presence of the U.S. military
in the Far East, we can’t ensure our own security,” a Japanese official said.
“That’s an absolute fact, whether we like it or not.”
Other world leaders who have invested
heavily in a personal relationship with Trump, such as British Prime Minister
Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron, have made similar
cost-benefit analyses despite being rebuffed by Trump on various policy
priorities.
U.S. officials stressed that although
Trump’s relationships can sour, they can also improve quite dramatically. For
months, the president raged against the European Union’s trade practices, only
to hail major progress with the world’s largest trade bloc after cutting a
largely symbolic agreement with European Commission President Jean-Claude
Juncker last month to continue negotiations.
“Despite a deterioration of their personal
relationship, it’s still quite easy for Abe to ask for a phone conversation
with Trump, and this happens quite regularly,” said Andrew Oros, a Japan expert
at Washington College in Chestertown, Md.
Analysts attribute the latest downturn in
relations to the simple reality that Abe now needs Trump much more than Trump once
needed Abe. The Japanese leader has come to the president with a range of
requests, including assistance on the abductees issue, tariff exemptions, and
clarifications on oil import sanctions with respect to U.S. withdrawal from the
Iran nuclear deal.
But as Abe seeks his third term as prime
minister, he has been unable to give Trump what he wants: unilateral
concessions increasing U.S. farm goods’ access to Japanese markets, a sensitive
political issue in Japan.
“The early value Trump gained from Abe’s
mentorship now seems less important to him, and Trump probably sees Abe now as
someone who is often asking for something but not giving Trump what he wants,”
said Jim Schoff, a Japan expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace.
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