Vice President Kamala Harris welcomed Japanse Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to the White House this week, noticeably absent from the meeting President Joe Biden, continues to shy away from public appearance with world leaders in lieu of delegating his presidential duties to Harris.
“It is now my great pleasure to welcome the Prime minister of Japan, and to thank him for this visit, which is the first visit to the United States of a world leader, um, since we came in office,” Harris said. “Uh, the President and I are very excited about the conversations we will have with the Prime Minister.”
“Um, as you know Mr. Prime Minister, just about a month ago during the Quad Summit, which was a meeting with the United States with our allies, Japan, with Australia, and with India, where we had extensive conversations about a collaboration and a friendship around some of the biggest challenges facing our world,” Harris added.
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