Record package of over seventy agreements, especially in the defense and security sectors. A common anti-missile defense system to send a message to China in the Indo-Pacific and to its allies around the world.
Joe Biden also recalled the gift, 100 years ago, of three thousand Japanese cherry trees which became not only a symbol of the partnership but also of the American capital. The renewed ties between the United States and Japan they do not stop at the military sector, indeed "they extend all the way to the Moon", underlined the president by announcing that "two Japanese astronauts will join future US missions" Meanwhile, Chinese leader Xi Jinping met former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing, for the second time after their historic first summit in September 2015 in Singapore. "External interference" will not prevent reunification between China and the island, the Chinese president warned in the Great Hall of the People, sending a clear message to the U.S. and its allies. The meeting was held amid the thaw between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.