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09-06-2016, 06:50 AM
HANGZHOU, China: Chinese President Xi Jinping offered Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe an olive branch at their first meeting in over a year on Monday, Beijing’s official news agency Xinhua reported.
The Asian giants have been at loggerheads over territorial disputes and historical animosity, but Xi said they should "put aside disruptions" in their relationship and return to **rmal development, Xinhua said.
For his part Abe said that Tokyo wanted to "manage difficult issues" and promote win-win cooperation, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported.
The relationship between the two powers -- the world’s second- and third-largest eco**mies -- is crucial to regional stability but they have a longstanding dispute over islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan, which k**ws them as Senkaku, and claimed by China, which calls them Diaoyu.
The comments after a G20 summit in Hangzhou were in marked contrast to the last time the two met on Chinese soil, on the sidelines of an APEC summit in 2014, when they could barely conceal their mutual distaste.
Ties later thawed, but tensions have been rising again in recent months as Japan weighs in on a**ther Chinese territorial dispute in the South China Sea, where Beijing has built artificial islands capable of supporting military facilities.
Abe has vocally criticised China for rejecting a July ruling by an international tribunal that said extensive claims to the strategically vital waters had ** legal basis.
In a substantive breakthrough, the leaders agreed that they would restart talks later this month on a deal to jointly develop resources in the region. Japan and China agreed in June 2008 to cooperate over oil and gas resources in area, but negotiations stopped two years later amid rising tensions.
Meanwhile, Japan has weighed in on a**ther Chinese territorial dispute in the South China Sea, where Beijing has built artificial islands capable of supporting military facilities.
Abe has vocally criticised China for rejecting a July ruling by an international tribunal that said its extensive claims to the strategically vital waters had ** legal basis. Monday’s rapprochement only went so far. Xi told Abe that Japan should “exercise caution in its words and deeds” on the issue, Xinhua said.
And Abe reiterated his stance, saying: “Any dispute has to be solved peacefully and diplomatically under international law, **t through power or intimidation.”
“Since we are neighbours, we have a variety of problems,” he said. “So therefore, it is important to have dialogue.”
The two agreed to accelerate talks on an air and sea communications hotline between their defence ministries, he added.
Last week Japan’s defence ministry requested a record budget, including funds for an anti-ship missile system to defend the East China Sea islands.
Beijing has the world’s largest military at its disposal and the tensions have at times raised fears of clashes between them.
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The Asian giants have been at loggerheads over territorial disputes and historical animosity, but Xi said they should "put aside disruptions" in their relationship and return to **rmal development, Xinhua said.
For his part Abe said that Tokyo wanted to "manage difficult issues" and promote win-win cooperation, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported.
The relationship between the two powers -- the world’s second- and third-largest eco**mies -- is crucial to regional stability but they have a longstanding dispute over islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan, which k**ws them as Senkaku, and claimed by China, which calls them Diaoyu.
The comments after a G20 summit in Hangzhou were in marked contrast to the last time the two met on Chinese soil, on the sidelines of an APEC summit in 2014, when they could barely conceal their mutual distaste.
Ties later thawed, but tensions have been rising again in recent months as Japan weighs in on a**ther Chinese territorial dispute in the South China Sea, where Beijing has built artificial islands capable of supporting military facilities.
Abe has vocally criticised China for rejecting a July ruling by an international tribunal that said extensive claims to the strategically vital waters had ** legal basis.
In a substantive breakthrough, the leaders agreed that they would restart talks later this month on a deal to jointly develop resources in the region. Japan and China agreed in June 2008 to cooperate over oil and gas resources in area, but negotiations stopped two years later amid rising tensions.
Meanwhile, Japan has weighed in on a**ther Chinese territorial dispute in the South China Sea, where Beijing has built artificial islands capable of supporting military facilities.
Abe has vocally criticised China for rejecting a July ruling by an international tribunal that said its extensive claims to the strategically vital waters had ** legal basis. Monday’s rapprochement only went so far. Xi told Abe that Japan should “exercise caution in its words and deeds” on the issue, Xinhua said.
And Abe reiterated his stance, saying: “Any dispute has to be solved peacefully and diplomatically under international law, **t through power or intimidation.”
“Since we are neighbours, we have a variety of problems,” he said. “So therefore, it is important to have dialogue.”
The two agreed to accelerate talks on an air and sea communications hotline between their defence ministries, he added.
Last week Japan’s defence ministry requested a record budget, including funds for an anti-ship missile system to defend the East China Sea islands.
Beijing has the world’s largest military at its disposal and the tensions have at times raised fears of clashes between them.
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