Biden and Japan's Suga project unity and stress peace in Taiwan Straits against China's assertiveness

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, accompanied by President Joe Biden, speaks at a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, April 16, 2021, in Washington. - AP

WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters): President Joe Biden on Friday (April 16) sought to present a united front with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to counter an increasingly assertive China as the US leader held his first face-to-face White House summit since taking office.

Biden hosted Suga for talks that offered the Democratic president, inaugurated in January, a chance to work further on his pledge to revitalise US alliances that frayed under his Republican predecessor Donald Trump.