Kishida and his wife will stop by the White House Tuesday evening ahead of Wednesday's official visit and formal state dinner as President Joe Biden looks to celebrate a decades-long ally he sees as the cornerstone of his Indo-Pacific policy.
The United States, Australia and Britain are considering working with Japan on the joint development of advanced defense technologies through their trilateral security partnership, the grouping's defense ministers say, as part of efforts to counter China's military expansion.
Fumio Kishida says that in areas like semiconductors, AI, quantum computing and biotech, it is ‘increasingly important for the two countries to build resilience’ as the two allies work to counterbalance China.