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By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com

With Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s week-long high-profile visit to the United States, a new global U.S. partnership is emerging that could replace the U.S. “special relationship” with Britain, which is fading fast with London’s rapid retreat to isolationism and global insignificance.

The formation of this new strategic relationship can be credited to one of the most profound international and geopolitical realignments in recent memory, i.e. the rise of a revisionist and vengeful China.

It would have been unimaginable only a decade ago for Japan to be considered a global player on par with the United States.

After its defeat in World War II, Japan had become the world’s most adamantly pacifist nations for nearly 70 years, with constitutional provisions and self-imposed straightjackets completely prohibiting Japan’s any role in military and security operations beyond its minimalist self-defense needs.

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