Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi’s new hardline coalition partner unshackles her security ambitions and gives U.S. President Donald Trump room to press for military spending, but her fragile government may put a brake on what she can do.

Takaichi, an admirer of conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was sworn in on Tuesday as head of a government that is two votes shy of a majority in the decision-making 465-seat lower house.

“She is conservative, wants to increase defence spending, and has styled herself the Japan First candidate. If she has a vulnerability with Trump, it is her relative weakness at home,” said Professor Michael Green, head of the United States Studies Centre in Australia and a former senior U.S. National Security Council official.

Takaichi has only a few

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