Japan’s leader says Trump called her as dispute with China doesn’t go away
TOKYO, November 25, 2025 (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who recently triggered China’s fury with a comment about Taiwan, said Tuesday that she received a call from U.S. President Donald Trump right after he spoke with China’s leader. Takaichi, a hard-line conservative, said Trump expressed his friendship to her in a call he made to her Tuesday after a phone conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. “President Trump told me that he and I are extremely good friends and that I should call him any time,” Takaichi said in brief remarks made to reporters at the prime minister’s