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Kishida's State Visit, Biden Criticizes Bibi, Yellen in China

Ken Moriyasu, Prashant Rao, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
President Biden and Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House Play Video
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About This Episode

This week, President Biden hosted Japanese Prime Minister Kishida to discuss Ukraine, AI and security in East Asia emphasizing the Japan-US alliance. Then, Biden criticizes Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as the Israel-Hamas war enters its sixth month, deepening the Israel-US rift. Plus, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen concluded her trip to China to renew US-China dialogue. Ken Moriyasu, Prashant Rao, and Carla Anne Robbins join the Council’s Ivo Daalder to examine these issues.

About the Panelists
Ken Moriyasu
Washington Correspondent, Nikkei Asia
Ken Moriyasu
Ken is the Washington correspondent for Nikkei Asia, the English-language arm of Japanese media group Nikkei. Born in Chicago, Ken has been with Nikkei for over two decades, serving as a correspondent in Tokyo, Washington DC, Cairo, Beijing, Dalian and New York. He was the last journalist to interview Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in January 2006, one day before his stroke..
Ken Moriyasu
Prashant Rao
Senior Editor, Semafor
Prashant Rao
Prashant Rao is a senior editor at Semafor. Prior to that, he was a former senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversaw the Global section, and was the deputy Europe business editor for The New York Times.
Prashant Rao
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Headshot of Carla Anne Robbins
Before joining CFR, Carla Anne Robbins was the deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times and chief diplomatic correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. She is also faculty director of the MIA program at Baruch College's Marxe School.
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CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Headshot of Ivo H. Daalder
Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.
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