TOKYO: United States President Donald Trump will meet Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday (Oct 28) for talks on commerce and safety, per week after the hardline conservative turned Japan’s first female leader and vowed to speed up a navy buildup.
Takaichi is anticipated to supply a package deal of US investments in a US$550-billion deal agreed this yr, together with cooperation in shipbuilding, sources conversant in the preparations beforehand instructed Reuters.
She may even search to please the chief of Japan’s commerce associate and safety ally with purchases of pickup vans, soybeans and pure gasoline, the sources stated.
Whereas Trump has beforehand stated Tokyo will not be spending sufficient to defend its islands from an more and more assertive China, Takaichi will not be anticipated to decide to new defence spending targets past the two per cent of GDP pledged by her predecessors.
Trump, who met Japan’s emperor on Monday, will maintain summit talks and have lunch with Takaichi on the Akasaka Palace, earlier than heading to a serious US naval base south of the capital.
