Donald Trump slammed Japan ahead of his arrival in Osaka for the G20, saying the US-Japan defence alliance was lopsided and Japan would watch “on a Sony television” instead of fighting if the US came under attack.
In an interview with Fox Business, the US president said the US was obliged under a decades-old mutual security treaty to defend Japan if the Asian nation came under attack, but that Japan had no reciprocal obligation.
“If Japan is attacked, we will fight World War III. We will go in and protect them with our lives and with our treasure,” Mr Trump said on Wednesday. “We will fight at all costs . . . but if we are attacked, Japan doesn’t have to help us at all. They can watch on a Sony television.”
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