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Like his predecessor Shinzo Abe with Donald Trump before him, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will be the first foreign leader to meet Joe Biden in person in Washington on April 16.
A new mark of respect and deference to the United States from its "best ally".
And a way to inaugurate under the best auspices the bilateral relationship between these newcomers (Yoshihide Suga has been in power since September) in a context strained by the emergence and unbridled assurance of a third thief: China.
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The Middle Kingdom remains a real headache for the Archipelago, because it represents both its greatest opportunity - as a market and supplier - and its greatest challenge - as a competitor, even an adversary.
Market and supplier?
For five years the Trump Administration, in (cold) war with its counterpart Xi Jinping, urged Japan to "decouple" its economy from the Chinese, for example by repatriating
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