U.S. President Joe Biden will hold talks with Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House on Jan. 13 to discuss North Korea, Ukraine, China’s tensions with Taiwan, and a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” the White House said. | Reuters
The White House said Biden will reiterate his full support for Japan’s recently released National Security Strategy.
On a visit to Japan in May, Biden applauded Kishida’s determination to strengthen Japanese defense capabilities. Japan hosts the Group of 7 nations this year, including a leaders’ summit in May in Hiroshima that Biden plans to attend. The club, which also includes the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Canada, has been a focus of Biden’s efforts to revitalize U.S. alliances to counter threats from China to Russia and beyond.
Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Yoshimasa Hayashi told a Reuters NEXT conference last month Japan will use G7 and U.N. leadership roles to pressure Russia to halt its war in Ukraine.Christopher Johnstone, head of the Japan program at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, said Kishida’s visit would reinforce Japan’s stature as America’s most critical ally in the Indo-Pacific.
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