Suga visits Arlington National Cemetery

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery on Friday.

Suga laid a wreath at the tomb, which honors U.S soldiers who lost their lives in service to the country.

President Joe Biden is welcoming Japan's prime minister to the White House in his first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader.

Biden and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga look to counter messaging from Chinese President Xi Jinping that America and democracies in general are on the decline, after the political turmoil and international withdrawal that marked Donald Trump's presidency.

The Biden administration calls managing U.S. policies toward the Indo-Pacific, where China under Xi is flexing growing economic and military power, the primary challenge for the United States. That helped guide Biden's decision, announced this week, to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan and free the administration to focus more on East Asia.