Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Beijing on Friday. Photo: Xinhua Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Beijing on Friday. Photo: Xinhua
Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Beijing on Friday. Photo: Xinhua
China /  Diplomacy

China, Japan moving from competition to cooperation, leaders say

  • Relationship between two countries ‘has encountered a lot of obstacles’, Xi Jinping says, but is now becoming ‘normalised’
  • Tokyo, Beijing are ‘neighbours and partners … will not be a threat to each other’, Shinzo Abe says

Topic |   China-Japan relations
Catherine Wong
Catherine Wong

Updated: 8:35am, 27 Oct, 2018

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Beijing on Friday. Photo: Xinhua Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Beijing on Friday. Photo: Xinhua
Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Beijing on Friday. Photo: Xinhua
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