Biden Moves to Soothe Allies in China’s Shadow With Japan Deal
- Steel tariff removal comes more than year into administration
- Nations must cooperate to counter Beijing, Rahm Emanuel says
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The partial lifting of U.S. metals tariffs slapped on Japan under the Trump administration is the latest bid by President Joe Biden’s government to mend ties with a major ally and counterbalance an increasingly powerful China.
Biden inherited a global network of alliances that had been battered by former President Donald Trump’s repeated questioning of their value to the U.S., even as many saw such ties as increasingly important, given China’s growing wealth and military might.