‘China-Japan high-level political dialogue’ in Beijing… China-Japan summit also discusses Fukushima contaminated water issue
Chinese diplomacy: “China will prevent regional wars”… Japanese security “serious concerns about sending troops to North Korea” (comprehensive)
‘China-Japan high-level political dialogue’ in Beijing… China-Japan summit also discusses Fukushima contaminated water issue
(Tokyo/Beijing = Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Seong-jin and Jeong Seong-jo = Top diplomatic and security officials from China and Japan met in Beijing, China on the 4th to discuss international and bilateral issues.
According to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 4th, Wang Yi, Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Office of the Communist Party of China (also Minister of Foreign Affairs), and Takeo Akiba, Director of the National Security Agency of Japan, held the ‘China-Japan High-Level Political Dialogue Mechanism Negotiations’ in Beijing on this day and exchanged opinions on international and regional security issues. exchanged.
“China is unwaveringly following the path of peaceful development and pursuing a defensive defense policy, and will continue to adhere to fairness and prevent war from breaking out in the region,” Wang said. “We hope that the parties will work together to prevent extra-regional forces from inciting confrontation and confrontation in the region and safeguard regional peace and stability through practical actions,” he said.
After the meeting, Director Akiba said, “I conveyed to Director Wang my serious concerns about strengthening cooperation between North Korea and Russia, including the dispatch of North Korean troops to Russia.”
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, “The two countries reaffirmed that they will adhere to the principles and common understanding (such as ‘One China’) established in the four major political documents of China and Japan and strive to comprehensively promote the strategic mutually beneficial relationship between China and Japan,” adding, “High-level exchanges and areas.” “They expressed their intention to send more positive signals to the outside world while maintaining dialogue and exchange.”
In addition, “the development of China and Japan, two important neighboring countries, is closely related and their economies are highly complementary, so decoupling may or may not be possible, and we will jointly promote the healthy development of economic cooperation and industrial and supply chain stability.” “I knew I would do it,” he explained.
They also discussed the issue of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant (the Japanese government’s name is ‘treated water’), and added, “We agreed to accelerate the implementation of follow-up measures to the political agreement between the two countries (in September).” Kyodo News reported that Director Akiba requested Director Wang to take a concrete response to resume Chinese imports of Japanese seafood.
Meanwhile, Kyodo reported that the two sides also communicated about tasks and cooperation between the two countries for the summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Peru this month.
Also on the agenda were the attack and death of a Japanese elementary school student in Shenzhen, southern China’s Guangdong Province last September, and the subsequent arrests of Japanese nationals in China on charges of violating the Anti-Espionage Act.
sungjinpark@yna.co.kr
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Seongjo Jeong