Japan, China hold 1st round of talks after 4-year break
Japan and China have launched a first round of security talks on maritime crisis management, aimed at easing tensions following a four-year break.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Thursday that the negotiations are expected to improve ties between the two countries.
Japan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama and China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jianchao are taking part in the talks.
“Our country sees (the dialogue) as important as it is expected to improve mutual trust between Japan and China in the field of security,” Suga said.
“Through this dialogue, we want to foster a sense of trust between the two countries by exchanging views frankly and honestly on security policies, defense policies and the regional situation,” the Japanese official added.
The talks are the first to be held since negotiations at Japan’s Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, in January 2011.
Issues such as China’s growing defense spending are expected to be discussed in the talks.
Japan and China have also been at odds over the sovereignty of a chain of islands in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japan and as Diaoyus in China.
China maintains that the islands are inherent parts of its territory and it has indisputable sovereignty over them, while the Japanese government, on the other hand, regards the islands as a part of its Ishigaki, in Okinawa Prefecture.
The islands have been under Japanese administrative control since the reversion of Okinawa to Japan from US administrative rule in 1972.
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