Geo436 TOKYO: Japanese Defence Minister Toshimi Kitazawa and his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie will hold a meeting in Hanoi on Monday, Kyodo news agency said, the latest sign of a thaw in the two nations’ strained ties.
Kitazawa and Liang will hold talks on the sidelines of a regional gathering of defence ministers in the Vietnamese capital, Kyodo said on Sunday, quoting sources familiar with bilateral relations.
It will be the first ministerial level meeting to be held after China suspended high-level exchanges with Japan in response to the detention of the captain of a Chinese fishing boat that collided with Japan Coast Guard ships off disputed islands, Kyodo said.
China and Japan, Asia’s two largest economies, have acted to ease tension following the stand-off over the uninhabited islets in the East China Sea, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in
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