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Leading technology, finance, and media executives gathered at the White House Wednesday for a state dinner honoring Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, as US President Joe Biden looked to bolster security and economic ties between the two allies with the star-studded celebration.

Actor Robert De Niro, Olympian Kristi Yamaguchi on guest list

Once seen as America’s greatest economic challenger, Japan is now looking to work together by appealing directly to US executives to invest in the country’s emerging tech sectors including artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors and clean energy.

Leading technology, finance, and media executives gathered at the White House Wednesday for a state dinner honoring Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, as U.S. President Joe Biden looked to bolster...

Biden also brought labor allies to the party.

A Boeing review found that CEO David Calhoun and other top executives took personal trips worth more than $500,000 on the company’s private jets and other planes that were improperly recorded as business travel

Once seen as America’s greatest economic challenger, Japan is now looking to work together by appealing directly to US executives to invest in the country’s emerging tech sectors including artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors and clean energy.

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Fumio Kishida says that in areas like semiconductors, AI, quantum computing and biotech, it is ‘increasingly important for the two countries to build resilience’ as the two allies work to counterbalance China.

Dave Calhoun had been under fire for some time, in large part due to public failures on the commercial side of the company.