Japan and the US announce an unexpected trade deal

These three countries have been working together on a number of sanctions filed. They rail against the fact that the United States, the EU, the UK are weaponising, in their view, the financial systems, the global trading system, in order to coerce Iran when it comes to its nuclear programme, Russia when it comes to its full scale invasion of Ukraine, China for supporting both of them. So there is this closer cooperation between these countries to try and develop systems and work arounds that avoid this financial pressure..."