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Japan Breaks Free: How Strategic Independence Could End American Dominance in Asia |John Mearsheimer

Japan's potential withdrawal from the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty would represent the most seismic shift in Pacific power dynamics since 1945, ending eight decades of American strategic dominance in Asia. With China now representing 23% of Japanese trade versus 18% with America, the economic mathematics no longer support military alliance that could destroy Japanese prosperity through involvement in great power conflicts. American security guarantees have become less credible as Chinese military capabilities improve while American resources become overstretched globally, creating impossible strategic equations for Japanese planners. Strategic independence offers Japan escape from choosing between economic dependence on China and military dependence on America—a trap that alliance obligations have created. John Mearsheimer explains how Japan's break with America would trigger an alliance cascade that could unravel the entire architecture of American global dominance within a single decade, confirming that the multipolar world has already begun.