If he hadn't been speaking Japanese, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe could easily have been mistaken for an EU leader.
If he hadn't been speaking Japanese, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe could easily have been mistaken for an EU leader.
At a news conference Thursday evening, Abe and his European counterparts did not quite finish each other's sentences but they happily spoke each other's lines — underscoring their friendship by raising each other's priorities. Japan this year holds the presidency of the G20 group of economic powers and much of the discussions on Thursday focused on plans to carry out a successful leaders’ summit in Osaka in June, where the Japanese hope to avoid the sort of blow-ups by Trump that have marred previous global summits, including a G7 gathering in Quebec and a NATO leaders’ summit in Brussels.
"But," the senior official said."I do confirm that there is a very good degree of cooperation over the common challenge we both have. We are players inside the multilateral system. We want to keep this multilateral system well-functioning and want to reform it, and we do not want to go into a situation where the U.S. will be using similar methods as they currently do to get a deal with the Chinese.
Still, Japan's view could help bridge even bigger differences between the EU and U.S. positions on reforming the WTO.Noting a meeting that took place Thursday between the leaders of Russia and North Korea, Abe said,"We again agreed to closely cooperate to realize a complete, verifiable and irreversible abandonment of all weapons of mass destruction and all ballistic missiles of all ranges by North Korea.
Asked about China's Belt and Road Initiative, Abe laid out a list of requirements nearly identical to those voiced by Tusk and Juncker during a meeting two weeks ago with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang.
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