Leaders of Japan and China to hold first summit

Leaders of Japan and China to hold first summit

Friday, November 7, 2014 9:40 am


Shinzo Abe

Shinzo Abe

President Xi Jinping

President Xi Jinping

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping are to hold their first summit next week, a report said Friday, after presiding over two years of animosity between Asia’s two biggest economies.

The two countries have “agreed to arrange a summit next week” in Beijing on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, Japan’s national broadcaster NHK said.

Tokyo has long been pressing for such a meeting but Beijing has resisted, with the two sides locked in a territorial dispute and still at odds over World War II history.


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