Abe's Early Visit 

Last Thursday evening Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the first foreign leader to ride the golden escalator up Trump Tower and meet with the President-elect (and his daughter Ivanka....and her husband, Jared Kushner). Given Washington's longstanding close ties to Tokyo, it is little surprise that Abe would jump at the chance to have an early word with the new--and yet untested--American leader. 

But what does the meeting really mean for future relations between the United States and Northeast Asia? Was it little more than a meet-and-greet? Or might President-elect Trump indeed already be signaling a pivot to Asia--and to Abe? 

Eurasia Group's U.S. politics expert Jon Lieber and senior Asia analyst Scott Seaman discuss President Trump's first meeting with a foreign head of state and what it might (and might not) signal for the next four years of geopolitics.