Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses a press conference next to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S. President Joe Biden during the G-7 Summit at Elmau Castle, southern Germany, on June 26, 2022. Jonathan Ernst/AFP via Getty Images
Japan seems to be planning an end-run around China’s trading power.
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."