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IIRC They do have a dent test but it’s because Japan cares about pedestrians, unlike America, so denting is good, American safety regulations only care about the people in the car and not about anyone else
Japanese negotiators need to understand that nobody involved gives an actual shot about American automakers or addressing trade imbalance.
It's all "make clown feel good"
Geopolitics via online brainpoison. Social media is to America what opium was to Qing China. Our Century of Humiliation has begun
I mean, this particular example seems easy. You loudly & proudly announce you have dropped this requirement, pass a fucking constitutional amendment prohibiting it until the end of time, Trump hangs a "mission accomplished" banner in front of the WH, and we all go about our lives
American cars. Famously being banned in Europe and Japan for being too pedestrian friendly.
Offer to replace it with the special "Down Pillow Test" used for Japanese-made cars.
How incompetent are the Japanese not to immediately concede to this (since it is non-existent), but instead worry about whether it will really reduce the deficit. Be glad it doesn’t.
Just like when you interview him and he switches direction so many times and never answers any question that the interview just dissolves in chaos. Just what he wants.
Sounds like he watched too many Warner bros cartoons...
Next he will ask for EU, or UK, or whoever for that matter, to stop stimulating ACME factories because they are making faulty machines used by American consumers...
lol dealing with trump is literally impossible since he makes things up and changes any details he feels like whenever he feels like. It’s amazing how MAGA lost their minds over Biden yet trump says outlandish false things multiple times a day and they herald him as a genious
Easy play along with Dementia Don and just tell him you’ll stop dropping bowling balls on cars.
Trump is correct. Japan and Europe both require headform impact testing as a pedestrian safety regulation.
Do what every other country has done, agree not to do it and then leverage it to your advantage.
As suggested at the end, this is one of the few easily solvable problems with Trump as this zoolander clip shows.