Report outlines framework for U.S.-Japan free trade agreement

The United States and Japan can – and should – forge a bilateral free trade agreement that builds on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and serves as a counterbalance to China, two American Enterprise Institute analysts say in a new report. “The U.S. and Japan have a chance to implement an Asian geoeconomic strategy with broad geopolitical implications,” the authors – Derek Scissors, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Dan Blumenthal, the director of Asian studies at AEI –...