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MERCENARY

• Meaning  – a professional soldier hired  to serve in  a foreign army.

TRUMP DOCTRINE

• Under Donald Trump’s leadership U.S forces have been portrayed as  a mercenary force that will fight for money.

TRUMP’S NEW  DEMAND

DETAILS

• US President Donald Trump has asked Japan to  quadruple its payments for American forces  stationed in Japan
• Washington wants Tokyo to increase annual payments  for the 54,000 US troops in Japan to around US$8  billion (S$10.9 billion) from about US$2 billion.
• The current agreement expires in March 2021.

IMPACT

• Japan hosts the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet,  including the only permanently forward deployed  carrier strike group, as well as the Third Marine  Expeditionary Force.
• In addition to defending Japan, those units use the  archipelago as a base for operations in the wider  Asia-Pacific region where U.S. military power acts  as a counterbalance to China’s growing influence.

POINT  TO NOTE

• The heavy U.S soldier deployment in Japan has  led to some ugly incidents as well.

JAPANESE  CITIZENS ARE NOT VERY  HAPPY ABOUT  U.S  ARMY IN JAPAN

TREATY OF MUTUAL COOPERATION AND  SECURITY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES  AND JAPAN

• Signed in 1951 alongside the Treaty of San  Francisco that formally ended World War II, the  U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty was a ten-year,  renewable agreement that outlined how Japan, in  light of its pacifist constitution, would allow U.S.  forces to remain on its soil after Japan regained  sovereignty.

U.S HAS BEEN ASKING ITS ALLIES IN  EAST ASIA TO PAY  MORE FOR PROTECTION

WHY IS THIS PROBLEMATIC FOR JAPAN?

OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIA?

• India can use this tussle between U.S and Japan to its advantage by offering a better military  engagement with Japan
• Our policy should be that we will not deploy troops on foreign land for money but at the  same time we can have deeper military ties with Japan

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