U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet in Washington this week to discuss the future of the longstanding U.S.-Japan partnership. The summit comes at a time of international conflict, heightened economic competition, and fraught politics.
What announcements are expected from the meeting? How might Kishida approach his address to a joint session of Congress? And what’s at stake for his political longevity in Japan? Mireya Solís examines these questions in a preview of the summit.
“Kishida has yet to articulate his own vision for Japan’s role in a fracturing world order and how the U.S.-Japan alliance will operate in this era of growing uncertainty. The address to the joint session of Congress offers an excellent opportunity to do so, should Kishida seize it.”
— Mireya Solís
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