China’s Xinhua seeks cooperation with Japan’s Kyodo News amid push to boost views on ties

China’s Xinhua seeks cooperation with Japan’s Kyodo News amid push to boost views on ties

Chinese state news agency Xinhua said it would deepen cooperation with Japan’s Kyodo News as Beijing aimed to create a “favourable public opinion environment” for Sino-Japanese ties. Xinhua’s president Fu Hua met his Kyodo counterpart Toru Mizutani in Tokyo on Monday. Fu said Beijing was willing to “further strengthen exchanges and cooperation” between China’s official…

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China and Japan face ‘crisis’ in ties as they fail to adapt to ‘new reality’: ex-PM

China and Japan face ‘crisis’ in ties as they fail to adapt to ‘new reality’: ex-PM

Former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda has warned of a “crisis of dialogue, comprehensive understanding, and mutual trust” between Japan and China, urging leaders from the two nations to take decisive action. “In the past three years … mutual understanding has declined further with goodwill towards each other plummeting,” Fukuda said in a written speech…

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