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we are very fortunate to have two ambassadors here. they have been working pretty hard for the last three weeks. he said he was running a marathon over the weekend. that explains a lot, why he's fit and trim. but we are really excited to have them here. they know exactly what will happen in this summit, because everything has worked out. i don't know how much they will share with us, but i suspect it will be a good session. it will be a conversation led by chris johnstone, who leads our

japan program. can i ask you to welcome the ambassadors. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for joining us, and thank you to all of us for joining us today. i'm this senior advisor in japan share here. we will have a 30 minute or so conversation and try to open things up for a question or two at the end. let me start. this is the first official visit of a japanese prime minister to the white house since operations of in 2015. these visits are a big deal. this is the fifth of -- the biden administration has done since it took office. a prime opportunity to showcase progress in the relationship and highlight the importance of the alliance. let me offer each of you the chance to open some remarks. what is the significance of the

bit -- of the visit? ambs. emanuel: thank you for hosting this on the conference. the general view of the administration is you have rogue countries under major change in the last two years. so it signifies a closing of one era and the beginning of writing the first chapters of the next era. japan has had, in the last two years, five different 70-year-old or multi-decade policies that have all changed. manifested by the defense budget going from 1% to 2%, lifting the cap on defense technology exports. not only normalizing but stabilizing the relationship with the r.o.k.

on the u.s. side you have a change of strategy from a hub that spoke to the system. this week we are sitting here in the south china sea of the united states, philippines, japan and australia and maybe some operations during the practice. at the end of the state visit, you have the first ever leaders trilateral meeting between the united states, japan, and the philippines. that is like a bookend with the state visit in the middle. that tells you how the u.s. approaches change. when you project forward, from the administration's standpoint, and as you said, we had the australia rok, you've had the indian leaders, now the japanese leaders. four of the five states come from the end pacific area. the conflict for the united states in this architecture is

japan. while we talk about defense and everything else, i want to say one thing that's valuable for the relationship. if you look at any of the public surveys in the region, japan standing is the highest civilian nation. that's a huge amount of political goodwill and capital that comes to the alliance as we work the diplomatic front, let alone the collective deterrence for us in the region. i do think our efforts in this state visit comes, not only at a critical juncture in the area, but if you look at it from a historical context, it's writing the first chapter of the future. chris: thank you. amb. yamada: thank you. chris, thank you very much for doing this. i am very honored to be here with ambassador emmanuel -- emanuel. i don't think i could be more

analytic then ambassador emanue l. amb. emanuel: i don't recommend it. amb. yamada: he's very energetic. not only in japan but in washington, d.c. you can sense the presence of ambassador emanuel. thank you for all the work you are doing for the partnership. prime minister kishida, i'm sorry, is arriving later this afternoon on an official visit. as you said, the japanese prime minister's official visit is a once in a decade event. so i'm very fortunate to be here as the ambassador when a prime minister visits the united states as an official guest of the president. the last visit by a japanese prime minister was is -- was in 2015, prime minister abe.

the international situation surrounding the two countries and the nature of the partnership have changed significantly from that time. prime minister abe's visit focused on the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in the regional cooperations the two countries have. they talked about, the prime minister and president obama talked about tpp and free and open in the pacific. we have faced a turning point in our history, facing serious challenges. including, russian aggression into ukraine, the situation in the middle east, and a complex situation in east asia. japan has been very clear and firm in standing up against any attempts to change the status quo or any violation of the

fundamental principles of the international order. japan has also played an important role in coordinating the network to support the ukrainian people's efforts to defend themselves. japan had the g-7 last year. japan has been active in many other global issues, in close coordination with the united states. i think the japan-u.s. partnership has grown out of a regional partnership, and now has become a true global partner. working together to uphold and strengthen international order based on the rule of law. i hope the prime minister's visit, this time around, will demonstrate the strong global

partnership. not too many people in this country or not too many people in japan are aware of this global nature of our partnership. the great potential of our partnership. i hope that the prime minister's visit will impress upon the people in this country and those who are in japan, and the international community that we are a strong global ally. in our partnership has more potential. this strong partnership is based on the trust between our two leaders. but i think, more important, stable basis for that strong partnership is the sense of trust between our two peoples. not just through many years of grassroot exchanges, people to people exchanges, business partnerships, academic exchanges

and grassroot exchanges. i am a strong believer in people to people exchanges. ambassador emanuel talked about it in southeast asia. i am encouraged to see a recent opinion poll conducted by gallup earlier this year. there are people from 50 states and d.c., they were asked whether they had favorable views of the country or unfavorable views of that country. the country which came at the top of the favorable views was, of course, japan. chris: not a trick question. amb. yamada: in the country that came at the bottom of unfavorable view was, again, japan. there's a strong sense of opportunity with japan by the people in this country. i hope the prime minister's

visit will be a celebration of the strong global partnership, which is supported by, not only the trust relationship between the two leaders, but also the strong trust between our two peoples. in addition to just celebrating today's partnership, the two leaders will also talk about the two countries as indefensible partners to each other. in strengthening our competitiveness to the future. we will talk about the cooperation in such areas of space, energy, and emerging technologies like, ai, quantum computing, fusion, 5g. i'm very excited about the space corporation. i know ambassador emanuel is even more excited. japan is the foremost partner in

the program for lunar exploration. and we are building pressurized lunar rover, which will move around on the lunar surface. and the two leaders will talk about the progress we are making on this issue. so i am very much excited about the prime minister's visit, which will celebrate the strong global partnership between the two countries. chris: terrific. it's remarkable how far this relationship has, over the last couple of decades. let's get into the substances. you noted, ambassador, how our relationship is global in scope in terms of cooperation. while it's a beautiful spring day outside, it's a gloomy world. think about war in the middle east, the stalemate in ukraine. i wonder if you can share how the leaders will address these issues.

ambassador emanuel, will there be things president biden is seeking from japan and what will prime minister kishida be seeking as we think about global issues? chris: before i get -- amb. emanuel: before i get to the two situations, i think of the larger context dating back to the two big changes in both countries over the last two years. i think you will look back, when history gets written, the three c's changed the world. covid, conflict, and coercion. in many ways, when you look at the changes on the security front japan has initiated, through the prism of what happened when you looked at supply chain. you look at russia violating the united nations resolution. which they are a member of the sovereign nation. you look at all of these things, not only what covid did, but the economic origin. japan as well, fish from the

water. countries are making adjustments to these three factors that upended every assumption you had for the last 30 years. if not, longer. that's the first one. second, in ukraine right now, it's very clear that russia is not only targeting the population or the military, but also targeting the energy infrastructure for ukraine as a society. no country has been a greater contributor to the energy infrastructure than japan. mitsubishi's heavy industry, kawasaki's heavy industry, have all been exporting major energy transformers to ukraine. they have been a leader in the economic assistance in the united states. there will be a discussion between the two leaders, i think also privately, that will talk about those two conflicts without talking about more until they meet.

i think those are the types of things. there's a lot of other things that happen in these visits that are scripted, that will be where you have a fresh exchange of ideas. we told you what will happen. i think they will bring their individual perspective. today, what you know is happening. by wednesday, in both of those situations could be different. i do think the history will tell you about the future. congress is coming back into session. you have the eyes of the world, as it relates to the ukraine-russia conflict, the eyes of the world are on the united states house of representatives. i take two notes, and i will be quick because i want to make time. one, when the senate was debating it, 10 of the u.s. ambassadors in the region wrote a letter how important it was getting ukraine, israel, taiwan aid out was important to the

region and credibility. that is also true today for the house. as prime minister kishida said in singapore at the conference two years ago, ukraine today could be in pacific -- indo pacific tomorrow. they are a single theater and will be approach that way. chris: i want to come back to the question of the prime minister speech. anything you would like to say about cooperation on these challenging global issues in the middle east and ukraine? amb. yamada: as global partner of the united states, japan will be working and has been working very closely with united states in various issues on ukraine. the prime minister's conviction is that today's ukraine could be tomorrow's nice asia. from that conviction, the prime minister has been very firm in our support for ukraine

introducing stronger functions against russia. recently we organized a conference in tokyo to support the ukrainian economic development, as well as reconstruction. that involved many japanese private companies, and there was -- among japanese companies to be involved with the reconstruction of ukraine. japan we will continue to support ukraine in an effort to defend themselves and keep the economy going. that may be one of the important issues, the prime minister and the president will talk about. i cannot say exactly what they will talk about. the other issue may be the situation in the middle east. not too many people are aware, but japan has been very active in supporting middle east peace..

we have been taking a unique contribution -- making a unique contribution to the process by establishing industrial complex to support palestinian people's economic activities. also, we organized a conference, mobilizing east asian countries in support of the palestinian development. it was a conference of nations for palestinian development. that is a unique role japan has been trying in the middle east peace process, and we are more than happy to play a larger role in the discussions of the day after. am sure that we will have a chance to discuss. >> good. let's turn to china now.

easy menu of things out there. >> got that under control. >> secretary yellen has been in china the last two days, where she spoke on a range of challenging issues but in particular this problem of state subsidized overcapacity dumping, sectors like batteries, solar panels, etc. i was wondering what you can share about how the president and prime minister will talk about the economic relationship with china and whether there will be any new initiatives to be announced related to coordinating our approaches to managing these very challenging issues. ambassador yamada, maybe this time i will start with you if that's ok. ambassador yamada: i do not project what they are going to discuss, but china is one of the issues i am sure in their minds when they have in-depth discussions, the economic matters, especially economic security, is one of the issues

they discuss. as ambassador emanuel said, japan has been from time to time victims of chinese economic coercion. at this time, china is introducing unreasonable import bans on japanese fishery products. so as we discussed china, economic security matters is one of the important issues but also overall approach to china is another issue the leaders i am sure will discuss. the japanese will try to discuss a stable relationship with china through candid communication with the chinese leadership, and that although -- how to maintain or manage a relationship with china is i think shared between

the prime minister and the president as was demonstrated by the president's recent telephone conversation with president ping. the readout was very candid and secretary yellen's visit also, the readout indicates that she made the u.s. position very clear. i think it is important as we try to manage our relationship with china that we maintain our position. we make our concerns very clear to the chinese and at the same time, encourage the chinese side to take responsible actions in the international field and if possible we work together on global issues, and that is the constructive and stable relationship the prime minister is trying to achieve with the

chinese presidents and china and i think that overall approach, i think the two leaders will also discuss as i said. >> thank you. ambassador emanuel: first of all, i think when you look at china, you look at secretary yellen, china is in the midst of exporting their challenges to the rest of the world. you have the e.u., you have the united states, the you have countries like brazil, thailand. everybody is taking action to protect their market from a subsidized industry where because of the real estate bubble bust, because of the overhang of massive debt on the public sector side, china is exporting their economic challenges domestically to the rest of the world. the rest of the world, whether you think it's the united states

or e.u., other countries are all taking actions because they cannot become as they have in the past, you look at the solar panel as one example, become -- have their ghes particular industries -- domestic industries wiped out as state subsidized industries of china lower the price artificially. that's a warning sign that this is not -- whatever you think you experienced over the last 20 years is not what you will experience in the next 20 years and it's not just the united states. china is going to scream containment and the only reason there are some actions is because of what china is doing at home. second, the most persistent and pernicious act china does economically is economic coercion. they constantly use that tool to pressure another country on the political front. today japan is a target of that. just recently, after three

years, china threw in the towel on australia, which was the victim. in the recent past, south korea was the target of china's coercion. also the fill peeps, also -- philippines, also lithuania. i think we all have to be alert to what china's intentions are. there is one way -- they try to lure american business and investment. i would say reminding everybody that you have also a situation where people are being arrested in china. we have national security laws in any company can be a target if they decide, there is not a rule of law. there is a rule of one and that means you are at risk at any given time. that is what is happening and

what china is doing is isolating china from the rest of the international economic system. it is a defense of the rule of law. >> in the report we released last week we identified this issue of overcapacity and dumping as a principal challenge of the united states and japan are going to have to cooperate on. >> i want to correct -- that would be true if brazil wasn't taking action. the i.u. -- e.u. wasn't taking action. it is across the world countries are taking action to protect their domestic industries from a set of actions that don't play by the same rules and china is doing that because they have other massive domestic economic challenges so they're exporting their problems to the rest of the world. our experience out of covid is you can't export that anymore, cannot happen. you have to go resolve that in

china. you have to build a domestic consumption market. you cannot export your economic problems to the world. >> thank you. let's turn a bit to anticipated outcomes to the extent you are able to talk about them. i know you don't want to steal the thunder of leaders in the rose garden and elsewhere but if i could maybe we could first talk about the defense side of the relationship. there have been a lot of reporting about possible announcements related to cooperation and command and control, other forms of defense industry and technology cooperation. we welcome whatever you are able to say, but stepping back how do you conceptualize this next step in u.s.-japan alliance, defense, cooperation? how should we think about the things that are coming? ambassador yamada, may i start with you on this one? ambassador yamada: going to the

meeting, we are still coordinating. so i cannot be -- >> sounds familiar. ambassador yamada: so the -- i don't know whether we call it next stage or not, but yes, we are in the process of coordinating our defense policies and all the more closely and japan's national security strategy couple years ago created -- demonstrated japan's strong commitment to dramatically enhancing our defense capabilities including introduction of strike and establishment of joint operational command by the forces. as the report indicated that our

two countries are working together with a clear understanding of the importance of closer coordination between our two countries, how to coordinate our command and control structure, as we establish that joint operation or command. and also we are talking about the importance of enhanced cooperation in the production side, maipt nance -- maintenance side of defense equipment. those are some of the issues the prime minister and the president will discuss, but the general trend you asked is for that to deepen our coordination and cooperation on this defense policies. ambassador emanuel: i will be

quick on the security side because my friend has covered it, but i would say one thing i think should be noted or two things in the security front. one is japan's budget, defense budget, created a new joint operation command center. it initiated therefore for us to take a fresh look of something that's been around had the united states for the 1960 ease and we are saying it's a structure we have had really right for the next 60 years? and the answer is no. we have different challenges today, we have a different japan and so that inspired, initiated and got past the bureaucratic inertia that can exist to ask fresh questions and we will have a different structure what shape that takes, that's not going to be resolved but the fact that it's going to happen is without a doubt resolved. how it takes -- what the particulars are which are very important, have yet to.

the second piece is, this is not breaking news. we have obligations to the united states across the globe. one of the challenges we have is our military industrial capabilities are not equal to the commitments we have. japan because of a set of -- or policy of banning defense technology exports, changing that policy recently, under the leadership of prime minister kishida opens up an industrial capacity of japan to be part of a solution that is a global challenge in a way that you can't say that just for europe or any other country that's been part of that. this is a whole new capacity and bringing it in so it's going to have a 180 degree look, where can we co-produce and look at every aspect of that. the two things i think that will get covered but i think is really important, the last two

years, all teasing aside i am interested in space. i think it's an incredible opportunity. we have had five agreements between the united states and japan, gateway, artemis, mars, international space station and the framework. in this gathering we will build off of the incredible structure and foundation. administrator nelson -- i was about to call him senator nelsoe partner, visited japan and you will see a major contribution in the collaboration and partnership and should not be lost, just a couple months ago japan became the fifth -- only fifth country to land on the moon and continue to send very valuable information back from the moon and achieved a great technological feat given the sense how close they got to the exact area. so space will be a major

component. also it's minor but a big deal which is we are going to look about placing a major climate, human di as ter -- disaster center. japan had a major earthquake recently. taiwan had a major earthquake. you have typhoons, all types of challenges. all the water, all the medicine in a major central location in a warehouse so we can deploy anywhere in the region a rapid response capability, humanitarian assistance to climate and human -- natural disasters. first ever created and it will be in my view a real contribution given there will be more, not less of those type of natural disasters that we have to respond to collectively. >> such a wide range of things. i know you are doing a lot of work on the technology promotion side so maybe we can come back to that, but ambassador yamada,

i would like to ask you about the prime minister's speech to congress which is significant part of this visit. i believe it's on the morning of the 11th. the congress is just coming back and re-engaging on the question of assistance to ukraine. what messages can we anticipate the prime minister delivering in his address? ambassador yamada: the prime minister was asked that question earlier today. what he said was, he would like to underscore the strength of japan-u.s. alliance and convey to the congress what kind of future we would like to leave to our future generations and what should we do together to achieve that shared future? the prime minister kishida has spent some years when he was a child in the united states, so his message will be a message

from a longtime friend and close friend of the united states and he will emphasize his deep respect for the leadership role the ups has been play -- united states has been playing in the international arena and also thl partner of the united states is ready to work with the united states, shoulder to shoulder, on various global issues we are faced with. and the strong, reliable global partner of the united states, and also prime minister will talk about transformational changes taking place in japan, security policy as well as economic situation. so i hope that the prime minister's address to the meeting with congress which is only the second ever by a

japanese prime minister to impress upon the american people that japan is a reliable and determined global partner of the united states. >> thank you. just two more questions from me and then we will open it up. i want to come back to the trilat on the back end of this. ambassador emanuel, in your piece in "the wall street journal," you talked about this emerging lattice work moving away from the bilateral hubs to a more mini lateral construct. welcome your thoughts on what we can anticipate from this trilateral meeting but also the other relationship that have become so important, whether there will be discussion of further steps with the r.o.k., further steps with australia for example. this work has a number of pieces and i suspect it will be very much on display. ambassador emanuel: as a former

congressman, i do want to -- it wasn't the core question but they are coming back after two weeks and the speaker noted that they were going to deal with the assistance. also ambassador yamada said earlier which i want to stress in his opening remarks the importance of trust and there is a line of thinking in the united states or by some that we should really just focus on the china and leave leave europe or not deal with ukraine is not the primary. we don't have that luxury as a superpower. it's the credit of the united states, credibility of democracy and the rule of law is on the line. he will be speaking to congress as a critical juncture when congress -- he won't be the onle will say. i know what he has communicated in resources and in words before, and other world leaders have spoken to this. so this is a -- for the security

that we are building, that we just talked about, for the credit of it the united states credibility as a central piece in partnership with our friends japan in the area, it will be advanced when we double down on what we have committed to which is a rule of law and defense of it. can you not separate the trans-atlantic over here and indo-pacific over here. there is a single strategic sphere. that's one. two, i think that the way that this -- think about this. you have an energized quad that japan are key players in that effort. you have a historic meeting in camp david in august led by president biden and also led by prime minister kishida and president yu to deepen the roots

about a real commitment on a trilateral basis to face challenge. the first ever leader meeting between the united states, japan and philippine leaders. both the united states and japan separately have very strong bilateral relationships on the economic front, the development front, the diplomatic front and the defense or deterrence front. bringing that together into kind of a comprehensive home -- whole, the whole strats gee here in a large context, china tries to use economic coercion is to isolate japan. when you bring the lattice together or lattice-like system, it's not to isolate china but their attempt to isolate others, the development front, the di -- defensor terence front doesn't

work. it's a major transformation. the constant in it is the united states and japan. building off of that foundation and i said this before but i really believe it, we are leaving an era of alliance protection and we are emerging into an era of alliance projection. not just as the ambassador said and i agree with this, foremost in the region, but it's a global alliance built op a set of values and ideals we both share and sense of leadership to protect those values. >> the connections among u.s. allies and partners is -- >> its walls -- it was always siloed and us in the center. it's not up to the challenges and the kind of also strategy that's been deployed by china to isolate south korea, isolate japan, isolate australia.

that lattice work is a real response to that strategy of isolation. >> last question i feel obligated to ask -- i think it's fair to say this is a time of political uncertainty in both the united states and japan. president biden is engaged in a presidential campaign. prime minister kishida faces his own headwinds and election in accept. how should we think about the durability of the things that will be announced on wednesday? ambassador yamada? ambassador yamada: i think e is bipartisan support for the strengthening, further strengthening of japan-u.s. partnership in this country and also in japan there is a

consensus on the need to continue to strengthen our bilateral relationship. whatever happens in either country, i think our two countries partnership will continue to grow. ambassador emanuel: i think it's a complicated answer. i don't think it's a yes or a no. i am going to slightly -- this is what a good diplomat is and what a bad diplomat is. this is the perfect -- this is don't do what i say or do, ok? tell your kids this is dangerous. so here is what i would say. there is a lesson out of the trilateral relationship. take that trilateral relationship into camp david. one of the pillars of china's strategy was that the united states, japan and korea could

never get on the same page. that changed fundamentally in august at camp david. i think one of the national security staff members of president bush said we desperately wanted to have this, how significant this moment was. it was in our strategic interest. now i believe there are real roots meaning this is getting embedded in the cultures and institutions not just on the intelligence side. just went to the baseball game, dodgers and padres, in south korea. padres have a japanese player and a korean player on the team. it tells you this is a national pastime but other things are happening when we announce that the g-7, tokyo university and university of chicago, we put $150 million through i.b.m. and

google for quantum computing research and at davos, they joined the computing partnership. it has roots. i would also tell you, having been part of this on an intimate level, there is a trust where prime minister kishida -- i can't speak to the president but i will take the liberty -- will go jobbed the -- beyond the comfort zone because they have a trust not only in the united states but the leader of the united states and if you do something to fray that trust, everything you are building is not constant. you are building all the time. you are strengthening all time. you are doubling down all the time. nothing is static in politics. i know it comes as rude shock but diplomacy is politics. so the idea that somehow elections don't matter, they do matter. they matter domestically. they matter internationally.

and so i do think there is some longevity that goes past the time of the three leaders, but there are also things unless you build off of it rather than abandon it, it doesn't mean it can stand the pressure. the treus is -- treus is there is real interest, roots are being put down but it's early enough that unless you are building on it constantly, it will atrophy and we all know that. that's just what happens. >> great. thank you. we have time for one -- >> it is a short diplomatic career. >> we have time for one or maybe two questions. let me go to emma right here. >> thank you. thanks to both of you.

ambassador yamada, i looked up your time on the cherry blossom run. are you way ahead of me, quite impressive. i wanted to ask about this rumblings of japan now reach to north korea that is seemingly far-fetched but persistent. i wonder what japan's motivation is in that. it seems there is some flexibility from the family members right now on this. do you anticipate it coming up at all during this visit and if there is a potential for any breakthrough between pyongyang and tokyo could that help the united states sort of unstick this persistent gridlock? >> easy question. ambassador yamada: the prime minister kishida believes that if we can ever establish a productive relationship with north korea, it will be

beneficial to japan and north korea as well as to the region to the stability of the region, but at the same time the prime minister is very clear, we have to see if we can resolve all the outstanding issues and concerns. so far the recent statements from north korea indicated that they are not ready to deal with those outstanding issues around concerns, so we'll see how things develop. for the prime minister, it is very important to resolve outstanding issues of concern, missile issues, nuclear issues and absuction issues. so those continues to be very important issues for the prime minister. to resolve those issues, the

prime minister is ready to have a dialogue with the north korean side under his direct instructions. we'll see how the north korean side will react. >> let's do one more. i would like to go with mr. takashi from n.h.k. >> thank you very much for this great opportunity. regarding the planned acquisition, president biden issued a statement. in japan this is perceived as an action that may damage the relationship between the u.s. and japan, so ambassador, what do you think were the reasons that president biden publicly reports before the security were complete and ambassador yamada, if japan is planning to raise this issue at the summit on wednesday? thank you. >> another easy one.

ambassador emel: let me say this. first of all, one is the united states relationship with japan is a lot deeper and stronger and more significant than a single commercial deal. second, weeks before the president made his statement, he gave a japanese corporation a $20 billion agreement to build a crane factory here in the united states to replace all the cranes in all our ports. i don't know what says trusted partner better than a $20 billion endeavor for matsui corporation. third in 2021, when toshiba was a target for an acquisition, japan stepped in because of national security interests. the relationship continued to prosper and grow. so i understand the focus, but the idea that you are going to take -- i don't know what the count is, 70 different parts

of -- talking about major security changes in the united states and japan and we are going to reduce it to a commercial deal the two countries have a disagreement about when you have the history of toshiba and matsui as we would say in chicago, you got to chill. ambassador yamada: i cannot say what the prime minister will talk about and what the president will talk about. >> fair enough. we have really benefited from your time. this is really an historic time and these are two actor tects -- architects of where we are today. please join me in a real warm round of applause. [applause]

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