Biden To Hold Trilateral Call With Japan, Philippines Leaders

US President Joe Biden speaks about the economy in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 10, 2025. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP

U.S. President Joe Biden will have a trilateral telephone call with Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos early Monday, Marcos’s spokesman said Sunday.

The call was supposed to have been held on Sunday but has been postponed because of the Los Angeles wildfires, presidential spokesman Cesar Chavez said in a statement.

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