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Japan, South Korea, and the Price of Partnership with the US

10 mins·07:30, 30 Oct 2025
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Japan, South Korea, and the Price of Partnership with the US

10 mins
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07:30, 30 Oct 2025
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Guest: Alexis Dudden (Visiting Professor, Department of Japanese Studies), National University of Singapore

As US President Donald Trump wraps up his three-nation tour of Asia, he got nearly $900 billion in investment pledges from Japan and South Korea, in exchange for cutting US tariffs to 15%. Alexis Dudden, Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore, unpacks who truly benefits from these as well as how they reshape America’s economic and strategic leverage in Asia.

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Presenter: Wong Shou Ning, Keith Kam

Producer: Jake Lim

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