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Biden puts Japan at the center of US policy in Asia

Washington appears to be embracing Tokyo's strategic concerns

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Joe Biden, left, and Yoshihide Suga, on screen, participate in a virtual meeting with leaders of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue countries on Mar. 12: Biden's push for the meeting suggests the influence of Japan's strategic thinking.   © Getty Images

Jeffrey W. Hornung is a political scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation.

The late Harvard professor Ezra Vogel wrote a widely influential book titled Japan as Number One, which sought to extrapolate lessons from Japan's postwar economic success for the U.S. To borrow Vogel's title, Japan appears to be very much number one in terms of the Biden administration's initial foreign policy priorities.

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