[inaudible conversations] good morning everybody. Welcome. Its a Beautiful Day in the start up with going to be a really exciting week. I want to say thank you to all of you for coming. Delighted to have you here. And let me just say last week we released a report in the armitage series and id like you to take a look at it but its looking at the next step we can take in strengthening its alliance. Its a remarkable accomplishment in these last years we have succeeded at a high point. Its really been remarkable whats been accomplished during his tenure and we are excited to have him here especially having a speech in front of the joint session of congress. Thats really rare so thats exciting time. We were very fortunate to have two ambassadors here in buster yamada and ambassador rahm emanuel. They have been working hard for the last three weeks. He said he was out running the marathon this weekend and that explains a lot why hes fit and trim. [laughter] but we are excited to have him here. S they know exactly whats going to happen at this summit. Everything is worked out and i dont know how much they will share with us but i expect it will be a i good session and its going to be a conversation led by chris johnstone. Can i ask you if you are enthusiastic, applause and welcome ambassador rahm emanuel and ambassador [applause] thank you and ambassadors for joining us and thanks to all of you for being here today. E im the chair of csi is a will have a 30 minute or so conversation appear and try to open things up for a question or two at the end. Start. Me this is the First Official visit of the japanese Prime Minister to the white house since 2015. This is a big deal and its a way that the five administration has taken office in a prime opportunityme to showcase progrs in a relationship and highlight the importance of the visit and id like to give you a chance to ask about the significance of the visited and i might start with you. First of all ii want to thank csis for hosting this conference would start to think the white house or the general view of thein administration is that you have both countries under major change in the last few years and so it signifies the closing of one era and the beginning of riding the first chapters of the next era. T japan has had in the last two years five different multidecade year policies that involve change manifested by the Defense Budget going from onee o 2 listening to technology and exports not only normalizing their relationship with the rok but then you have on the u. S. Side a significant change of strategies and to think in fact this week we are sitting here in the South China Sea and we have the United States japan and australia obviously the navy in operation doing kind of the practice and at the end of the state visit on the break you have thes firstever leaders trilateral meeting between the United States, japan and the philippines. The thing thats kind of like a book and with the state in the middle on that tells you a lot about how the u. S. Approach approaches changed and when you project forward from the demonstrations standpoint as we have the australians and leaders and now the japanese leaders for identify state visits in the pacific area and the constant strategic architecture inea jap. While we talk about defense and Everything Else i want to say one thing thats very valuable for the relationship but if you look at any of the public surveys inp. The region is young countries etc. Japans standing is the highest of any nation. Thats a huge amount of political goodwill and capitol that comes to the alliance on the developmental diplomatic and collective front in the region. I do think our efforts here in this state visit kind of comes at a critical junction in the area but also if you look at the context its riding the first chapter the c future. Ambassador llama motto. Thank you for doing this. I am relatively energetic but i dont think i can ever be more energetic than i am now. I would recommend it. Wherever we go not only in japan but in washington d. C. We have the president presence of the ambassadors of thank you for what you are doing. Prime minister Prime MinisterFumio Kushida is arriving later this afternoon. As you said the japanese Prime Minister will visit once in a decadem in fact so im very fortunate to be here as ambassador and the Prime Minister visits the United States with all the president s. The last official visit by Prime Minister was in 2015 and the International Situation surrounding the two countries have the politics of change significantly from that time. Prime minister abbas visit focused on the 17th anniversary of the end of the war. The Prime Minister and the president obama talked about ppp and free and open but but ths time around we are faced with the turning point in our history facing serious challenges including russian aggression the situation in the middle east and severe complex issues in east asia. Japan has been very clear and firm against any attempt to change the status quo or any violation of the fundamental principals of the international order. Japan has also played an Important Role in coordinating the support of the ukrainian people defense. Japan has been active in many other global issues in close coronation with United Statess o i think japans partnership has grown out of the Regional Partnership in a has become a true Global Partner working together to uphold and strengthen the free and open international order. And i hope the Prime Ministers visit this time around will demonstrate this strong global uspartnership. Not too many people in this country were not too many people in japan for that matter are aware of this Global Partnership in and the Great Potential for partnership has. So, i very much hope that the Prime Ministers visit will impress upon the people in this country and those in japan and the International Community that we are a strongg Global Partner and our partnership is important. The Strong Partnership is based on trust between our two leaders but i think more importantly a stable basis for that Strong Partnership is the sense of trust and grassroots exchanges, peopletopeople exchanges. Business partnerships, academic exchanges and other grassroots exchanges. I am a strong believer in that. And the ambassador yamada talks about Southeast Asia and i would encourage a recent opinion poll conducted by gallup in this country earlier this year. There are people from 50 states were asked whether they have favorable views of the country or unfavorable views of that country. The country which came at the top was a course japan. And also the country which came at the bottom is again japan. But theres a strong sense of support and opportunity with japan by the people in this country. I hope the Prime Ministers visit will be a declaration of the strong Global Partnership which is supported by not only the trusted relationship between the two leaders but also the trust in but the two leaders will also talk about the two countries being sent sensible partners to each other in strengthening the future. We will talk about the cooperation in energy and emerging technologies that ai fusion, 5g and i am personally very much excited. Japan is the foremost partner in the program and building pressurized robots which will move around on the lunar surface. The two leaders will talk about the progress we are making on this issue. I am very much excited about the Prime Ministers visit and we celebrate this strong Global Partnership between our two countries. Its remarkable how far this relationship has come in the last couple of decades. You noted ambassador yamada how our relationship is global and spoke in terms of negotiations and while its a beautiful spring day its kind of a gloomy world right now we think about the war and what middle east the stalemate in ukraine. I wonder if he could share how the leaders will address these issues. Will there be things that President Biden is seeking from japan and what will the Prime Ministers be seeking from United States on these challenging global issues . Ambassador emanuel. Before he gets each situation i think theres a larger context back to the big changes in both countries over the last few years. I think you will look back when history gets written that three things change the world covids, conflict and coercion and in many ways when you look at the changes on the security front through the prism of what happened with the supply chain and a look at russias violating the United Nations is a Founding Member of subornation you look at all these not only with covids but the economic coercion and japan as well the water. Countries are making adjustments toto these three factors than te past threeco years if not longe. The second is in ukraine right now its very clear that russia is not only targeting the population or the military but also targeting the Energy Infrastructure of theo stability is ukraine a society to function. No country has been a greater can tribute or to the energy than japan. These industries have all been exporting transformers to ukraine and the leader in the economic assistance joining the United States and there will be a discussion obviously between the two leaders both held privately that will w talk about those two conflicts without talking about more types of things there are a lot of other things that happened in a lot of things that are scripted. There has been an exchange of ideas and we told you exactly whats going to happen. I think youll bring a new perspective and wednesday in both of those situations that could be different but i do think if history will tell you about the future and congress is coming back into session and you have the eyes of the world unless ukraine and russia conflict in the eyes of the world are on it. I give one out there for two be quick here. One is when the senate was debating it tended to u. S. Investors in the region were getting taiwan israel aid out. Thats also true today for the house. As the Prime Minister said in singapore at the conference two years ago ukraine could be the indo pacific tomorrow. These are not transatlantic specific. I want to come backk to the question on that in ambassador anything youd like to say on the cooperation of the challenging global issues in the middle east right now . As i said as a partner of the United States and have been watching closely withh United States in ukraine as ambassador emanuel said todays ukraine could be tomorrows east asia so from that the Prime Minister has been very firm and support for ukraine and introducing stronger actions against russia. Maybe an organized conference in tokyo could support Ukrainian Economic Development and reconstruction. That involves many Japanese Private Companies and there was was to be involved in the reconstruction. We will continue to support ukraine in their efforts to defend themselves and keep the economy going and one of the most important issues. I cant say exactly what they are going to talk about. The other situation may be the situation in the middle east. Not too many people are aware that japan has been very active in supporting the middle east Peace Process and we have been taking by unique contribution making a unique contribution to the process by publishing to support the palestinians Economic Activities and we organized the conference and eastiz Asian Countries and the posting development, a conference on the east asian nations for development. That is a unique role that we have been playing in the middle eastpr Peace Process and wed wt to play a larger role in the discussion. T that kind of issue i am sure will be important. Lets turn to china now. Secretary yellen. An easy menu of things out there. Secretary yellen has been in china for the last two days were shes focused on the whole range of issues in the china relationship but in particular it the problem of state subsidized dumping sectors like batteries over panels etc. Im wondering whatca you can she about how the Prime Minister would talk about the relationship with china and coordinating our purchase on managing these very challenging issues. Doctors yamada ill start with you. I cannot predict what they are going to discuss that china is one of the issues im sure on their minds. The economic matters as ambassador emanuel said has been from time to time and at this time china is introducing a stand on japanese fishery program. As we discussed the Security Matter is one of the important issues but also the overall a approach. Im sure the leaders will discuss it and the china japanese art trying to have a stable relationship with china through communications withne te chinese people. That Overall Concept how to maintain a relationship with china is importing between the Prime Minister and the president as was demonstrated by the president to resent press readout. Secretary yellen said also the readout indicates the u. S. Has been very clear and i think its important as we try to manage our relationship with china that we maintain cooperation and we make it clear to the chinese at the same time we encourage the chinese to take responsible actions. If possible we could Work Together on global issues. That is the stable relationship the Prime Ministers trying to keep with president xi jinping and china and that overall approach. I think the two leaders will also discuss it as i said and i think they are basically on the same page. Thank you. First of all i think when you look at china and if you look at secretary Janet Yellens visit their china is in them mixed up exporting their economic exports to the world. Yet the eu and you have the United States and Europe Countries like brazil thailand everybodys taking action to protect their subsidized industry and because of the real estate and the massive death on the Public Sector side china is exporting their economic challenges domestically to the rest of the world and the rest of the world regardless of whether you think its United States or the eu and other countries are all taking attention because they cant become as they have in the past a look at the solar panel is one example. They basically have their domestic industry the state subsidized industry of china lowering the price artificially. Thats a warning sign to whatever you thank you experienced over the last 20 years in china its not what you will experience over the next few years and its not just the united. States. China wills scream containment and the only reason there are some action to what china is doing at home. The second is the most persistent and pernicious at china does economically is economic coercion. They constantly useus that toolo pressure another country on the political front. Today japan is the target of that. Just recently after three years china in the past recent past south korea was the target of chinas economic coercion. Also the philippines and lithuania. He constantly goes through the most persistent and most pernicious. I think we all have to be alert to what chinas intentions are. Theres one way and the other where they try to lure American Business and investment i would say in reminding everybody that we have a situation where people are being arrested in china. We have National Security laws of any company can be a target if they decide. Theres not a rule of law. Theres a rule of one and that means you are at risk at any one given time. I think we are going to be up front that whatever happened to the past we can forget thats how we are going to act and again what is happening or where china is doing is isolating china from the rest of the International Economic system and it iste a defense of the rue of law. In a report released last week we identified this issue of overcapacity and dumping is the principle challenge the United States and japan will have to cooperate on. That would be true if brazil wasnt taking action. If the e. U. Wasnt taking action, thailand wasnt taking action. Its across the world people countries rather are taking action to protect the domestic economy and Domestic Industries f