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President Donald Trump announced a “massive” new trade deal with Japan, causing stock rises in Asia and Europe. Japan will face a 15 percent tariff on car exports to the United States, down from 25 percent. Japan also promised to invest up to $550 billion in the U.S. and buy more American agriculture products, such as rice. Few details of the investment have been announced. As I mentioned yesterday, such funds tend to be much less impressive than they initially sound. South Korea said it hoped to negotiate a similar deal.

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President Trump also announced a trade deal with the Philippines; it will pay a 19 percent tariff and have no tariffs on U.S. imports. Indonesia will eliminate around 99 percent of its tariff barriers on a range of U.S. industrial and agriculture products, in return for a 19 percent tariff.

Meanwhile, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng will hold trade talks with the U.S. next week in Sweden. And representatives from the European Union will visit Washington for trade negotiations today.

This all looks like good news for the U.S. As I wrote during President Trump’s first term: “The EU and China have been attacking the United States economically for years. America is the victim of a trade beatdown. Donald Trump is only ‘starting a trade war’ in the sense that he is fighting back.” He’s shown that if America stands up for itself it can gain some concessions.

But countries that are used to taking advantage of the U.S.—especially the EU and China—will not take that loss lightly. They may bend to the U.S. for now. But watch for them to form their own trade alliance to strike back.

The U.S. will withdraw from UNESCO—the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization—due to its anti-Israel bias. The White House announced the decision yesterday, but it won’t go into effect until the end of next year. Unlike the UN General Assembly, UNESCO recognizes the “State of Palestine” as a full member. The U.S. State Department said Palestine’s inclusion was “highly problematic” and accused UNESCO of “proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric.”

Between 2009 and 2019, UNESCO passed 71 resolutions condemning Israel. In the same time period, it passed two resolutions against other nations. It encourages archaeology and cultural heritage around the world—except in Jerusalem because there it confirms the Jews’ ancient connection to their homeland.

The State Department said, “UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy.”

The Telegraph summarized the problems at UNESCO, writing:

You’d have to be in complete denial not to see the rot at UNESCO. It has forced through measures that are both anti-Israel and anti-Jewish, such as designating Jewish holy places as “Palestinian World Heritage” sites. It throws around inappropriate and inaccurate language, for instance that “Palestine” is “occupied” by Israel.

Unsurprisingly, it is also drunk on woke ideology. One item for its executive board meeting in March noted that its Global Alliance against Racism and Discriminations should advocate … wait for it … “intersectionality and the adoption of a transversal approach to address inequalities across sectors of government.” Why on earth should America continue to bankroll this sort of corrosive rubbish?

Then there’s the China influence. Beijing is one of the largest funders of UNESCO, with big cheeses from Beijing in leadership positions. So no, this is not some cuddly, benign outfit dedicated solely to protecting artisanal cheese or female education. It is deeply suspect.

Insulting Israel by labeling the Old City of Jerusalem as “Palestinian heritage” is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to anti-Semitism in the UN. Much evidence points to UN sponsorship as one reason Hamas was able to launch the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack in the first place. To learn more, read “Hamas: Made in the United Nations?”

The judiciary’s fight against President Trump reached New Jersey yesterday when federal judges ousted President Trump’s pick for the state’s top federal prosecutor. They pushed out Alina Habba using what Politico called an “arcane statute.” Habba has served as President Trump’s personal attorney and counselor. She was his pick for U.S. attorney for New Jersey and began the job on an interim basis in March.

A rarely used statute allows district judges to replace a U.S. attorney who is not confirmed by the Senate in 120 days. The judges used this to replace Habba with her deputy, Desiree Leigh Grace. This statute has rarely, if ever, been used to put in a candidate in opposition to the executive. The administration promptly fired Grace.

Habba had brought an indictment against Democratic Representative LaMonica McIver for allegedly assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called Habba a “political hack” and said that “she must be rejected by the federal district court judges.”

America’s political divisions are spilling across all areas of government. Judges have tried to overrule the executive branch on immigration policy and take over the president’s ability to control the executive. The Supreme Court has reigned a lot of that in, but many of these judges are looking for any angle they can to disrupt this administration. Learn more in our article “A Nation of 700 Presidents.”

IN OTHER NEWS

Russia plans to devote the equivalent of $1.1 trillion to rearmament spending by 2036, according to an assessment by Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate published Tuesday. This $1.1 trillion would be in addition to the nonrearmament military expenditure. Our In Brief has more.

Barack Obama hit back at the Trump administration yesterday, after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published evidence showing Obama directed the intelligence agencies’ attack on President Trump in 2016. “These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction,” his spokesman Patrick Rodenbush wrote in a statement to the media. Gabbard promised more evidence would be published later today. Mr. Flurry’s article from Monday shows why Obama and his supporters must be held accountable.

Romania finalized a deal to purchase a short-range air defense system from Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems on Monday. Rafael, one of the world’s most prestigious weapons manufacturers, designed Israel’s famed Iron Dome. The missile defense system in question, called SPYDER, is already sold to several other European countries. Israel apparently trusts Europe with some of its most sensitive defense technology. As our article from 2023 about a similar deal with Germany shows, this is setting Israel up for a double cross.

Germany will sell 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Turkey, a German government spokesman confirmed today. Until recently, Germany had an arms embargo on Turkey. But since its removal, Turkey has accomplished a lot on Germany’s behalf. Its famous drones made with German parts helped Syrian rebels oust President Bashar Assad last year. Psalm 83 prophesies that Germany and Turkey will form a world-changing alliance. Keep watching as Germany helps build up the Turkish Army.