With an eye to both China and a possible Trump presidency, Joe Biden and Fumio Kishida are writing another chapter in the renovation of America’s Asian alliance architecture.
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Washington might be struggling to influence the course of conflict in Ukraine or Gaza, but in Asia its diplomatic labours are bearing fruit.
The state visit to Washington by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the first since the late Shinzo Abe in 2015, heralds the biggest upgrade to the relationship – what the US calls the “cornerstone” of its alliance system in Asia – since the 1960s.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/us-and-japan-build-new-asia-pacific-defence-latticework-20240411-p5fj17
