Japan's foreign minister meets his Chinese counterpart on the Munich Security Conference sidelines. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - Japan and China will hold security talks next week, Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said after meeting his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
“It is important for us to have frank discussions precisely because there are a number of pressing matters in our relationship”, Mr Hayashi said to reporters, highlighting a territorial spat in the East China Sea and increasing Chinese and Russian military presence around Japanese waters as some of the issues that need to be discussed.
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