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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by ern on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:12PM (#12934962)
In 1988, Japan loomed large in the American psyche, the same way China does today, if not more so. It was the unstoppable economic juggernaut that was destroying American jobs.

I doubt Trump would had the same views of Japan specifically, as he did then. He seems to have transferred his ire to China.

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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by jrockway on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:59PM (#12935274)
He took out a full-page ad in 1987:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ilanbenmeir/that-time-trump-spent-n...

And read it almost verbatim at the third debate. It was quite interesting how little his views have changed in the intervening years.

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