Japanese Prime Minister Abe meets with President Obama in the U.S. tomorrow, seeking to bolster his country’s key alliance as a bulwark against China and North Korea. “Abe wants to develop a good working relationship with Obama and show that he’s on top of the situation,” said Jeff Kingston, a faculty member at Temple University, Japan Campus. “The U.S. wants to reaffirm that the alliance is strong, but they also don’t want to go too far in ways that might be deemed provocative in Beijing. It’s a real tightrope.”