The leaders vowed to stand against the Chinese ‘aggression’, announced an agreement on the Nippon Steel-US Steel Deal.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and US President Donald Trump killed in a warm voice in their first meeting, Tokyo refrained from tariff that Trump slapped other colleagues – for now.
Praising each other at the White House, the two leaders on Friday promised to stand together against the Chinese “aggression” and said they found a solution to a blocked deal for troubled American steel.
Trump, however, reduced Ishiba to cut the US trade deficit with Japan and warned that Tokyo could still face tariffs on exported goods if he fails to do so.
Ishiba has been under pressure to repeat Trump’s close relationship with a “geek” and model warship fan, former Premier and Golf Friends, Shinzo Abe.
The two leaders stressed that they had a coordination by a foreign leader of Trump’s new tenure only during the second visit.
“I personally was very excited to watch such a celebrity on television,” Ishiba said at his joint news conference – while he was not trying to “suck” while saying.
“On television, he is frightening and a very strong personality. But when I met him, in fact, he was very honest and very powerful. ,
As he exchanged photographs, Trump praised the 68-year-old Japanese premiere as “Good Hukting”-usually one of the highest orders of praising former reality TV star.
And the US President said laughing and “this is a very good answer” when Ishiba said he could not answer the “theoretical question” whether he would retaliate for any American tariff.
Meanwhile, Trump said that Japan’s nippon steel would make a big investment in American steel, but would not handle the distressed company as per the interaction.
Trump said “They must be looking at an investment instead of purchases.” His predecessor Joe Biden blocked the deal.
The two leaders also doubled the relationship between decades-old American security and business-despite the apprehension that Trump could turn on Tokyo as they have with other American colleagues.
Trump said he had agreed to fight “Chinese economic aggression”, and in a joint statement, he condemned Beijing for “stimulating activities” in the South China Sea.
He also called for North Korea to ignore one, although Trump – who met his leader Kim Jong Un during his first term – said he wanted a “relationship” with Pyongyang.
There were promises to invest $ 1 trillion in the US of Japan and promote Japanese procurement of US defense equipment in the US behind Trump’s support.
Isaba said that his country was the largest investor in the United States and will increase its expenses.
The soft-spoken, cigarette-smoking Ishiba was hoping to blunt the edge of the “US first” policies by Trump.
Under Abe, Japan was preserved from some more punitive tendencies of Trump, such as a sudden trade war and pressure to increase financial contribution to hosting American soldiers.
A few days after Trump’s first election victory, Abe raced to give him a golden golf club. Trump hosted Abe’s widow Aki for dinner at his Mar-e-Lago Resort in Florida last December.
So far, the US President has slapped tariffs on China and ordered them in Mexico and Canada before stopping for a month.
He has also pledged tariffs on the European Union and said on Friday that he will announce the unspecified “mutual tariff” next week.
