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一 | 来源：环球网视频加载中...【环球网报道】美国当选总统特朗普近期多次发表“把加拿大并入美国”有关言论，引发关注。 According to the Japanese daily Nikkei, the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will scrap its usual ceiling on defense-related spending requests for the coming fiscal year, paving the way for a dramatic increase in military spending. Kishida is set to approve the policy before the end of the month.,Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at the Tokyo campus of Temple University, told the South China Morning Post that the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe earlier this month had allowed his Liberal Democratic Party to pursue its longstanding goal of amending Article 9, the so-called pacifism clause, of Japan’s constitution.,“It is clear that Kishida was already planning to boost defense spending, but the assassination of Abe has served to put wind in his sails and even the normally extremely cautious Ministry of Finance is not now raising any objections,” Kingston told the Hong Kong paper.,Abe’s killing, just days before parliamentary elections, catapulted the Liberal Democrats, a right-wing party, to a resounding victory and an even greater majority in the House of Councillors, the upper house of the Japanese Diet.,He said that between recent missile tests by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), increased tensions with China over Taiwan, and Russia’s special operation in Ukraine, Kishida’s government was “almost spoiled for choice” when it came to justifications for hiking the defense budget.,Japan, US Hold Joint Air Drills Involving 52 Aircraft: Military14 July, 07:48 GMT,“[W]hat is interesting is that if Abe had put forward these plans when he was prime minister, there would have been a quick and harsh pushback,” Kingston told the SCMP. During his nine years in power, Abe pushed to remove or amend the pacifism clause of the Japanese constitution that was put in place after World War II as a guard against renewed Japanese militarism.,“Everything that has happened in Ukraine has really put the liberal left on the back foot and altered that commitment to peace that has long been a part of the national psyche,” he added. “I had expected a more vigorous response, but it has been relatively muted.”,According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Japan had the world’s ninth-largest military budget last year, spending $54.1 billion, or 1.1% of its GDP, despite its pacifist constitution. That was a 7.3% increase over its budget the previous year, the largest increase of any of the top 15 military spenders except for Iran.,Nonetheless, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said in April that Kishida’s government has plans to double that to 2% of GDP within five years. At a projected $108 billion per year, that would make Japan's military budget the world’s third-largest, after the United States and China. Kishi said Japan was particularly interested in “counterstrike capabilities” that could hit the bases of countries that attack the island nation.,However, the move isn’t particularly popular with the Japanese public. A June poll by Japan’s Kyodo News Agency found that while 37.2% of Japanese citizens surveyed supported the proposed increase, almost as many, 31.5%, opposed it.。据美国全国广播公司（NBC）当地时间9日报道，加拿大总理特鲁多在接受美媒采访时称，特朗普曾在一次交谈中向他提出“把加拿大并入美国”提议，他就此向前者建议，用美国佛蒙特州或加利福尼亚州进行交换。NBC称，特鲁多在接受美国媒体MSNBC一档节目采访时，谈及自己去年11月在海湖庄园与特朗普会晤。报道说，对于特朗普对“把加拿大并入美国”表现出兴趣，特鲁多在采访中称，“当我开始建议说，‘好吧，也许可以用佛蒙特州或加利福尼亚州交换某些地区’，他立马觉得这个话题不再那么有趣。然后我们就转到另一个话题了”。NBC称，特鲁多当时是“开玩笑”提出了这一建议。

二 | 特鲁多（左）接受MSNBC采访时的画面图源：MSNBC视频截图NBC称，对于上述消息，特朗普的发言人没有立即回应置评请求。报道说，特鲁多还在采访中称，如果特朗普继续推进关税计划，加拿大准备作出“强有力回应”。此前，特朗普威胁要对加拿大商品征收25%的关税。据NBC等媒体报道，特朗普近期多次发表“加拿大应该成为美国第51州”有关言论，引发加拿大方面不满。

三 | 特朗普本月7日在佛罗里达州海湖庄园举行的新闻发布会上称，他对使用“经济力量”收购加拿大持开放态度。

四 | 对此，特鲁多在社交媒体上称，“加拿大不可能成为美国一部分”。

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