Two weeks after he posted “mission accomplished” on X, Japanese trade negotiator Akazawa Ryosei is back in Washington DC for another round of talks with his US counterparts. The issue is that the Trump administration has given no indication of when – or whether – it will implement the concession that appeared to be Akazawa and Prime […] The post Ishiba’s Trump trade pact fuels ‘unequal treaty’ firestorm appeared first on Asia Times .