May 17, 2017

"Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday met with Toshihiro Nikai, secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a day after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan might join the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

Nikai was in Beijing to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, which was held on Sunday and Monday. The Kyodo News Agency said he delivered a letter from Abe to Xi.

Japan had previously shown reluctance to be involved in China's Belt and Road initiative, and only recently decided to send a delegation to the forum. Japan and the US are the only G7 members not to have signed up for the AIIB."

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