Tokyo: In the midst of increasing Chinese aggression, US President Joe Biden is expected to form close relations with the next Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
This came after Kishida’s victory in the leading Liberal Democratic Party presidential election after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga decided to withdraw from the party’s presidential election, Kyodo News reported.
Experts believe that Biden administration is also likely to watch strictly whether Kishida can packed his grip on power and avoid Japan back to an era called Revolving Door Leadership.
Michael Green, a senior vice president at a Washington-based think tank, said that Japan was in every field of competition with China that the US cared, from technology and defense against democracy and diplomacy.
He also said that Biden was sure to embrace the next Japanese Prime Minister “very fast” because his government needed “strong Japanese leadership”.
“There are sizes, if not despair, about the US-Japanese alliance because China’s way under (president) XI Jinping has become very aggressive, very ambitious, and so coercion.
So there is a urgency for this alliance,” Green.
Quoted said by Kyodo News.
Earlier this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping held a telephone call with his American colleagues and stated that the US policy has resulted in ‘serious difficulties in bilateral relations and ran against the fundamental interests of the people in both countries and joint interests from all countries, Media State report.