CHINA-JAPAN Japan's national security advisor meets China's premier in Beijing

Record ID: 146772

  • Title: CHINA-JAPAN Japan's national security advisor meets China's premier in Beijing
  • Date: 17th July 2015
  • Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (JULY 17, 2015) (REUTERS) **** WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **** JAPAN'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR, SHOTARO YACHI, WALKING TOWARDS CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG, SHAKING HANDS AND POSING FOR PHOTOS MEETING IN PROGRESS LI SPEAKING YACHI SPEAKING YACHI AND LI SITTING MEETING IN PROGRESS
  • Embargoed: 1st August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: China
  • Country: China
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVADAD46X2KXU6U6B109LAUMC142
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Japan's National Security Advisor Shotaro Yachi met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on Friday (July 17).
    Sino-Japanese ties, long bedevilled by China's memories of Japan's wartime aggression and disputed islands in the East China Sea, have improved since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Chinese President Xi Jinping at an Asia-Pacific summit in Beijing in November.
    The two met for a second mini-summit in April at an Asia-African leaders' gathering in Jakarta and Japan wants to keep the emerging thaw on track, while ensuring Beijing realises the risks of an increasingly assertive maritime military policy.
    China is preparing for "high-level political dialogue" with Japan, China's top diplomat, State Councillor Yang Jiechi, told Yachi on Thursday (July 16), fuelling speculation of a leaders' summit as early as September.
    A successful summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping could bolster Abe's support rates, which have sagged over public doubts about his security policy.
    Li and Yachi shook hands before sitting down for talks at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing on Friday afternoon.
    China's defence minister told the head of Japan's National Security Council on Friday that Japanese legislation that could see troops sent to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two would "complicate" regional security.
    Chinese defence chief Chang Wanquan told Yachi, who is a close ally of Abe's, that the passing of the bill was an "unprecedented move", state news agency Xinhua said, after the two of them met in Beijing.
    He "urged the Japanese to learn from history, respect major security concerns of its neighbours and not to do harm to regional peace and stability", Xinhua added.
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