July 17, 2015

"Beijing made a strong protest about Tokyo's legislative campaign to lift restrictions on Japan's armed forces, describing them as 'unprecedented', during a meeting on Thursday.

State Councilor Yang Jiechi made the representations in Beijing while co-hosting the First China-Japan High-Level Political Dialogue with Shotaro Yachi, the head of Japan's National Security Council and a key adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Japan's ruling coalition pushed its contentious package of security bills through the lower house of the Diet, the country's legislature, earlier in the day despite a boycott of the vote by most opposition members."

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