Why did the US try harming its ally in the 80's?

Anyone know?

The Japs dindunuffin, never artificially devalued, never restricted imports, never subsidized exports, no?

>>2693920
The US and the Japs aren't allies, American policy planners probably see Japan as more of a burden that they had to keep around as a bulwark against Communist China than anything else

>>2693920
Because Japan was buying the shit out of American companies and real estate and Japanese culture began making great inroads into American culture. People get scared of other countries becoming so economically prominent in a fashion that is so close to home. This was also the beginning of that cancerous lesion called anime.

>>2693920
The U.S. doesn't have allies. It has colleagues.

Because pure neoliberalism hadn't yet set in and people still saw value in protecting native industry?

>>2693920
It's standard Great Power politics or Balance of Power ideas that comes from old Europe (and in America is personified by Kissinger).

Nixon and Kissinger reoriented US relations with Communist China (no longer the enemy but our friend) in the 1970s. Because that way you can solidify the USSR-PRC split.
Japan then became friends with China in the 1970s and 1980s. (Hard to believe today in 2017.)
That pushed the US to weaken Japan in the 1980s. (Can't have Japan and China cooperate as that could be a major threat to the US in East Asia. Make Japan economically weaker so it has to rely on the US politically. The USSR still looms as a threat for Japan.)
Then 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident happens and China now goes anti-Japan. (The Chinese Communist Party uses history to whip up Chinese nationalism and get the people to like the Communist Party.)
Also in 1989-1991 Japan's economic bubble bursts and Japan declines as an economic power.
Lastly the USSR collapses in 1991.
These 3 events allows the US to work with both Japan and China. That's why we get the 1990s a period which many Americans think was a good peaceful time.
By 2000 China becomes a major political AND economic power (while Japan declines economically). However, while China could threaten US interests in East Asia, China is also a source of profit for many US companies. So US policy is divided in the 2000s and essentially leaves China alone.
By 2010s, Japan's decline is absolutely clear, and China's threat is absolutely clear as well. Also Chinese-Japanese relations are basically broken after the Japanese gov't buys the Senkaku Islands in 2012.
Now, the US balances East Asia by being a closer friend to a weakened Japan while trying to weaken a much stronger China.

When thinking about US-Japan relations it's always good to keep it within the framework of East Asia. (2 Koreas, Philippines, Vietnam, etc also count, but for the big picture you can ignore them.)

>>2694647

>the eternal Uncle Sam

>>2693920
Because the US is run by Jews and Jews only help other Jews.

Just look at all of them and see how much of a big deal circumcision is for them.

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>>2694566
Subordinates*

>>2694647
Anti-Japanese nationalism has always been normal in China since the Sino-Japanese war.

The KMT in Taiwan were the biggest users of it.

So that's a mistake in your post. You buy into the "china uses anti-japanese stuff to fool the population in recent years" meme. It's been the norm for a long time and only increases when Japanese LDL PM #4691 starts denying warcrimes.

>>2693920
>America: sorry tots, business is business