Japanese Prime Minister Kishida will meet Biden, various issues including China will be discussed

Washington. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began his much-awaited US visit on Tuesday. It is believed that during Kishida’s visit, there will be discussions on the common concern over China’s increasing aggression in the Pacific Ocean region and the rare case of public differences between Japan and America over the purchase of a famous American steel company by a Japanese company. . Kishida and his wife will stop at the White House on Tuesday evening ahead of an official visit starting Wednesday and a formal state dinner as President Joe Biden looks to welcome back the decades-old ally he sees as a cornerstone of his Indo-Pacific policy .

Kishida will be the fifth world leader to be honored with a state dinner by Biden since he takes office in 2021. Kishida will visit ‘Arlington National Cemetery’ and the US Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday before reaching the White House. Biden and Kishida will hold bilateral talks and hold a joint press conference on Wednesday. After this, the Japanese leader will be given a state dinner in the famous East Room. Kishida has been invited to address a joint meeting of the US Congress on Thursday. He is the second Japanese leader to receive this honour. Before him, in 2015, the then Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe had addressed the joint meeting of Congress.

Nippon Steel announced in December that it planned to buy US Steel for $14.1 billion in cash, raising concerns that the transaction could harm workers, supply chains and US national security. What can be meant by. Japan’s Ambassador to Washington, Shigeo Yamada, declined to comment on whether Kishida would raise the issue of the Nippon-US steel deal during discussions with the US President.

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