China: Summit with Tokyo, Seoul to focus on cooperation
2018-05-05 09:45:03 source：Asahi Shimbun
May 4, 2018
BEIJING -- No areas will be off limits in talks next week when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits Japan, but North Korea is not going to be a focus, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Friday.
China and Japan, Asia's two largest economies, have been trying to reset ties after years of increasingly bitter dispute over a group of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea and the legacy of Japan's invasion of China before and during World War II.
Japan will host a summit with Li and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in in Tokyo on May 9 to discuss regional issues, where North Korea had been expected to be high on the agenda.
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