Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged in Nov to continue high-level contact. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - Japan’s top diplomat Yoshimasa Hayashi will visit China this weekend, the first such visit in over three years, the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo announced on Friday.
But last November, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of a summit in Bangkok and pledged to continue high-level contact. This week, Tokyo also called for Beijing to release a Japanese businessman held by Chinese authorities on unspecified allegations of violating domestic laws.
In 2022, it announced plans to lift defence spending to 2 per cent of gross domestic product by 2027.
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