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PM Modi to meet Joe Biden in Japan next week

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Japan next week for the second in-person Quad Summit, where he will hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his national security adviser said Wednesday.

Founded along with Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, Quad was a Trump administration initiative that elevated Joe Biden to a senior rank.

Three summits have been held so far, two of them virtual. “We believe that this summit will demonstrate both substance and vision what democracies can achieve and that these four nations working together uphold and will uphold the principles of a free and open Indo-Pacific,” said the US National Security Advisor told reporters USA, Jake Sullivan, during the daily White House press briefing.

While in Tokyo, President Biden will also launch an ambitious new economic initiative for the region, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), which will be a 21st-century economic agreement to address new economic challenges, he said.

The framework, he said, will include work ranging from “setting the rules of the digital economy, to ensuring safe and resilient supply chains, to managing the energy transition, to investing in clean, modern, high-end infrastructure.
” Joe Biden will be accompanied in person by the Japanese Prime Minister to the IPEF launch and virtually by leaders from various Indo-Pacific partners from Southeast Asia to Northeast Asia.

“In terms of security and economy, technology and energy, and infrastructure investment, we believe this trip will showcase President Biden’s Indo-Pacific strategy and demonstrate in full color that the United States can lead the free world immediately if It’s about responding to Russia’s war in Ukraine while charting a course for effective, principled American leadership and engagement in a region that will define much of the future of the 21st century,” Mr. Sullivan said. Before arriving in Japan, Joe Biden plans to travel to South Korea for a summit with his leaders.

“The message we are trying to send on this journey is one of an affirmative vision of what the world could be like when the world’s democracies and open societies come together to shape the rules of the way to shape the region’s security architecture to strengthen strong and powerful historic alliances,” Sullivan said.

“We believe the four-day presentation will send a strong message bilaterally with the ROK and Japan through the Quad, through the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. “We believe this message will be heard everywhere. We believe it will be heard in Beijing. But it is not a negative message and it is not aimed at any particular country,” he said.

“It addresses a global audience about what American leadership, working with like-minded allies and partners, can offer to people everywhere,” he added. “And we believe we’re embarking on this journey with strong tailwinds to ensure we have what it takes to meet the security and economic challenges of our time,” added Mr. Sullivan. .

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