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Building an Alternate BRI Will be High on Japanese PM Suga’s Agenda When He Meets With Biden on Friday in DC

by Eric Olander
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaking at COVID-19 task force meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 9, 2021. Eugene Hoshiko / POOL / AFP

The Japanese Prime Minister’s office is indicating that infrastructure and building an alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative will be high on the agenda when Yoshihide Suga visits Washington on Friday for talks with U.S. President Joe Biden.

For now, it looks like the focus of those infrastructure talks will be confined to Asia as there’s no indication that either country appears willing or even financially capable of mounting a credible challenge to China’s BRI globally.

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