{"id":39492,"date":"2019-05-25T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T15:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39492"},"modified":"2019-05-25T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T15:22:57","slug":"how-to-win-a-trade-war-when-the-us-took-on-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39492","title":{"rendered":"How to win a trade war: When the US took on Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>As President Donald Trump lands in Japan Saturday amid a worsening trade war with China, he could well be thinking back to a previous economic spat between Washington and an Asian economic powerhouse. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In the 1980s, Japan was the big bad. Its economy was booming \u2014 the second largest in the world \u2014 and many in the United States feared they were about to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Japan-Number-One-Lessons-America\/dp\/1583484108\" target=\"_blank\">overtaken<\/a>. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Articles were published warning of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=IwdbAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=_k0NAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=1381,4170850&#038;dq\" target=\"_blank\">Japanning of America<\/a>&#8221; or an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=5NkrAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=UWQFAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=4233,364186&#038;dq\" target=\"_blank\">economic Pearl Harbor<\/a>,&#8221; as Japanese businesses bought US companies and landmarks. Lawmakers and commentators warned of a growing trade deficit between the two countries, and complained of Japanese firms stealing US intellectual property and taking advantage of unfair trade deals. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)As President Donald Trump lands in Japan Saturday amid a worsening trade war with China, he could well be thinking back to a previous economic spat between Washington and an Asian economic powerhouse. In the 1980s, Japan was the big bad. Its economy was booming \u2014 the second largest in the world&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}