President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held wide-ranging talks at the White House on Friday.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held wide-ranging talks at the White House on Friday as Japan looks to build security cooperation with allies in a time of provocative Chinese and North Korean military action.
"We meet at a remarkable moment," Biden told Kishida, adding later,"The more difficult job is trying to figure out how and where we disagree." He added that the U.S. and Japan agree that China is their"greatest shared strategic challenge" and confirmed that an attack in space would trigger a mutual defense provision in the U.S.-Japan security treaty.
Kishida's sit-down with Biden is the final face-to-face in a week of talks with fellow Group of Seven leaders that focused largely on his efforts to increase Japan's defense spending and urge leaders to improve cooperation. "Just a few years ago, there would have been some discomfort in Washington with a Japan that has this kind of military capability," said Chris Johnstone, a former National Security Council official in the Biden administration who is now the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies."Those days are gone."
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