China’s Xi Set to Meet Japan’s Kishida After a Year of Wrangling
- The friction has hurt sales in China for Japanese companies
- Tokyo dubs its neighbor an ‘unprecedented security challenge’
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to make a fresh attempt to shore up fraught ties with China, a day after ally Joe Biden struck a warmer note at his own summit with President Xi Jinping.
Kishida and Xi will hold their first one-on-one summit in a year Thursday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, the Yomiuri newspaper reported. The meeting would follow months of bickering between the neighbors over everything from semiconductors to nuclear waste and the fate of Japanese citizens detained in China. No official announcement of a summit has been made yet.