Trump in East Asia: No Time for Spring Training

By Frank Jannuzi

Frank Jannuzi joined the Mansfield Foundation as President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2014.  He previously served as Deputy Executive Director (Advocacy, Policy and Research) at Amnesty International, USA. From 1997-2012 Mr. Jannuzi was Policy Director, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he advised Committee Chairmen Joseph Biden and John Kerry on a range of security, political, economic, and human rights issues pertinent to U.S. relations with East Asia.   During his tenure with the Foreign Relations Committee he also was a Hitachi Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2006-2007, serving as a visiting lecturer at Keio University and a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Policy Studies in Tokyo.   Early in his career he served for nine years as an analyst in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Mr. Jannuzi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and Master in Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  He has traveled throughout Asia and has written extensively on East Asia policy issues, including U.S. relations with Japan, China, and North Korea.

President-elect Donald Trump’s first meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to have gone smoothly, though it remains too soon to say what policies Trump will pursue to promote U.S. strategic and economic interests in East Asia. The Cipher Brief spoke with Mansfield Foundation President and CEO Frank Jannuzi to learn more about Trump’s most pressing policy considerations for the region.

The Cipher Brief: President-elect Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently met in New York. How is this meeting being received in Japan, and how far did it go to assuaging some of Japan’s feelings about a Trump presidency?

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