
ベセント米財務長官は23日、中国の何立峰副首相とワシントンで会談し、24日の米中首脳会談に向けた詰めの調整を進めた。昨年10月の首脳合意の継続やより大きな合意へのオープン姿勢を強調し、レアアース輸出の正常化や貿易休戦の延長、関税引き下げにも前向きな考えを示した。
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米中は昨年10月に首脳会談を行い、一定の合意に達していたが、レアアース輸出や関税問題などで摩擦が続いていた。今回の会談は24日の首脳会談に向けた最終調整の位置づけ。
ベセント米財務長官は23日、中国の何立峰副首相とワシントンで会談した。24日の両国首脳会談に向け、詰めの調整を進めた。ベセント氏は終了後、記者団に対し、「昨年10月の首脳合意の継続や、より大きな合意の検討にもオープンだ」と強調した。
レアアース輸出正常化、焦点に 中国許可遅れ、日本向けも―米中首脳会談
両氏は20日にも、ニューヨークで協議した。ベセント氏は、中国側が20日の協議で「より大きな合意を提案した」と説明。また、同氏は11月10日に期限を迎える貿易「休戦」の延長や、関税の引き下げに前向きな考えを示した。
ベセント氏は23日の会談終了後、X(旧ツイッター)に「米中経済関係について実質的な協議を行った」と投稿。「米国の労働者、農家、企業を守り、経済・国家安全保障上の利益を前進させる、意義のある約束を取り付けることに重点を置いた」と強調した。
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
24日の米中首脳会談でレアアース輸出の正常化に関する合意が発表される
Likely · Within days
貿易休戦の延長と関税の段階的引き下げに関する合意が得られる
Possible · Within weeks

Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to the United States and was received by President Trump at Andrews Air Force Base on the outskirts of Washington. The two leaders are scheduled to meet at the White House on the 24th, and Xi urged in a written message that the two countries should be partners, not rivals.

Local governments across the country are increasingly shortening the hours at resident counters, with Higashiura Town in Aichi Prefecture and Tachikawa City in Tokyo introducing the system. The background behind this is the digitization of counter operations due to the spread of convenience store issuance services that use My Number cards, which is reducing staff overtime and freeing up time for policy consideration.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met with U.S. President Trump in New York, and aimed to refine their understanding of China ahead of the U.S.-China summit meeting on the 24th. During the meeting, they confirmed cooperation in AI, semiconductors, and important minerals, but the meeting lasted only about 15 minutes and detailed discussions were not revealed.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced that it has returned six remains of foreigners who were mistakenly brought back from Kazakhstan and Myanmar, out of the remains collected from Japanese war dead during the last war. This is the first time that the ministry has returned mixed-up remains. The return will be carried out in 2023 and 2024, and the discovery was made through an appraisal of the remains brought back in the past following a mix-up incident that was discovered in 2019. Negotiations for the return of the country due to a mix-up in Russia are currently underway, but have stalled due to the situation in Ukraine.

A major topic of discussion at the US-China summit on the 24th will be the extension of the trade truce over China's restrictions on rare earth exports. Talks between the U.S. and China are at a standstill, as China has been slow to obtain export permits and is clearly intent on using rare earths as a diplomatic card.

The documentary film ``Naza,'' which deals with the civilian casualties of the Israeli military's attack on Gaza, is causing a stir. The director's criticism of the military's plan for the attack led to Netanyahu's ministers calling for his citizenship to be revoked.