Reagan–Thatcher, Trump–Takaichi, and Cold War II

In Japan, she is known as the “iron lady,” a not-so-subtle comparison to Britain’s Margaret Thatcher - Francis P. Sempa

• Like Thatcher, she is a conservative known for supporting a “hawkish” foreign policy and a stronger military.

In the late 1970s, in the wake of America’s defeat in Vietnam and the disastrous presidency of Jimmy Carter, Thatcher partnered with Ronald Reagan to reverse the “correlation of forces” that appeared to be shifting in the Soviet Union’s favor in Cold War I. 

• There are indications that Takaichi may partner with Donald Trump, in the aftermath of the disastrous, Carter-like Biden presidency, to face down the growing geopolitical challenge of China in Cold War II... (RELATED: Japan Set to Elect Female Nationalist, Pro-Taiwan, Anti-China Hawk as Next PM