The Japanese government announced that it is pushing for a summit between the two countries to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. At present, it is known that the possibility of an online (video) type meeting is high this fall.
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said in an interview with the Nihon Keizai Shimbun on the 19th that the two governments had begun coordination for a summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
He said he would “consider in detail” the holding of the meeting.
Dialogues between the leaders of China and Japan have not been held since October last year. The last face-to-face meeting was in December 2019.
The two governments are reviewing regardless of form, whether face-to-face, online or by phone.
The newspaper said that at present, it is most likely to be held in an online format this fall.
There are also plans to hold face-to-face talks in a third country, such as the G20 summit to be held in Bali, Indonesia in November. On the 19th, President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, the host country, confirmed that President Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin would attend.
On the 4th, China held a large-scale military exercise near Taiwan in protest against US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. In the process, five ballistic missiles were also dropped in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
However, Foreign Minister Hayashi criticized China’s actions, but noted that dialogue is more important in times like these. “We need to work together to build a constructive and stable China-Japan relationship,” he said.
On the 17th, high-level talks were held in the field of security between China and Japan.
Yang Jiechi, a member of the Politburo in charge of foreign affairs of the Communist Party of China, and Takeo Akiva, director of the Japanese National Security Agency, held a seven-hour long meeting in Tianjin, China. Both sides confirmed their intention to continue the dialogue.
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