On Tuesday, United States President Joe Biden welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to the White House. This features a significant upgrade in defense ties against a resurgent China.
On Wednesday, a gala dinner and Rose Garden press conference are on the menu for the formal part. The two leaders are also expected to bring to light plans to restructure the US military command in Japan which is the biggest upgrade to defence cooperation since the 1960s to make them more answerable against threats in the Asia-Pacific region.
The first Japanese leader is Kishida to get full honors from a US president since Shinzo Abe in 2015, arrived on the night of Tuesday at the White House with his wife Yuko.
Joe Biden 81 and first lady Jill Biden then took the Japanese couple to a restaurant in Washington’s upscale Georgetown area. ‘Visit would celebrate the friendship between the Japan and United States’, said Jill Biden.
She added, ‘Our countries are partners in a world where we choose creation over destruction, peace over bloodshed, and democracy over autocracy’. The Japanese visit underscores the significance Joe Biden places on building alliances against countries such as China, Russia and Iran’.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the two leaders will announce measures to improve security cooperation, to enable coordination’.
On Thursday Joe Biden will host the first trilateral summit between Japan, the Philippines and the United States to expand alliances against China in a critical region.
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