Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is scheduled to meet with US President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday. This is the first visit to the White House by a foreign leader since President Biden took office. According to Voice of America correspondent William Gallo, observers say the meeting underscores the importance of the US-Japan alliance at a time when the two countries’ common rivals, China, are in power and aggression. I am growing. Observers say that last year, the current Japanese government took a tougher stance on human rights abuses in Beijing and at times on infiltration into disputed waters in East and South China. It also reflects a shift in relations between Japan and China, longtime rivals and trading partners, but many analysts say their meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Biden I would also like to make China angrier.
Japan’s new look is encouraging for US lawmakers, who are in favor of taking a tougher line on China. Republican Senator Bill Hagerty says the dangers posed by China are now beginning to be understood by US allies. Senator Bill Hagerty has served as US Ambassador to Japan until 2019. Speaking to VOA, Senator Bill Hagerty said, “I think the rest of Asia is starting to see this threat.” I hope that other Asian countries will also be attracted to our model. “I want us to make them all like us and show that the best course of action would be to adopt our democratic values and free market principles,” he said. However, Mireya Solís, an East Asian affairs expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., says Japan needs to move forward to compete with China and carefully renew its ties with China a few years ago. There is a sense of unease in some Japanese policy circles that the policy has been ignored prior to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s visit to the United States, the Chinese Foreign Ministry had warned Japan that Japan was being misled by some anti-China countries. Earlier this month, China sent a naval strike group near Okinawa, where US troops were stationed.
There are currently 55,000 US troops in Japan, and the two countries generally see their alliance as a milestone for peace and stability in the Asian region. Since taking office in January, President Biden has focused on strengthening the US alliance with Japan, as well as the return of the US to multinational alliances. Former United States President Trump has either criticized these institutions or distanced himself from them. Japan’s ambassador to the United States, TOMITA Koji, told VOA that Japan supports US President Joe Biden’s return to multinational alliances and the resumption of leadership of the international community. The Japanese ambassador added that Japan also wants strong relations with China, but Japan’s concerns about China remain. He noted the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China, the abuse of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong and unfair trade practices.
The island of Taiwan is also in the spotlight at the moment. China claims ownership of it. However, some Japanese leaders believe that Japan should work more closely with the United States to discourage China from intimidating Taiwan. James D.J. Brown, an associate professor at Temple University in Tokyo, says Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is also under pressure from some social and political circles in Japan who sympathize with Taiwan. According to Professor DJ Brown, if the current Prime Minister of Japan refrains from taking a hard line against China, he may face criticism not only from the United States but also from within his own party. However, James D.J. Brown says that Suga cannot be too critical of China. He says Japan as a whole is deeply concerned that it is being forced to take a hard line against China. Professor Brown (James D.J. Brown) says officials in Tokyo are happy that the United States has taken a hard line against China, but are reluctant to do so. He believes that China can use its economic and military power to get Japan in trouble.
