Donald Trump is miffed that his trade deal with Japan made so few headlines, failing to knock his impeachment troubles off front pages around the globe. Perhaps it’s because Japanese leader Shinzo Abe is seeing the value in expanding his relationships beyond the erratic Trumpian United States to the other great democratic collection of economies: Europe. The US president surely noticed that Abe signed a giant trade deal with the European Union, a pact that went into effect this February. Combining the world’s largest borderless trade zone and its third-largest economy, it’s the world’s biggest free-trade agreement. ... (full story)