17-11-2023 (SAN FRANCISCO) Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held a meeting in San Francisco, as reported by China’s CCTV News on November 16.
During the meeting, Xi Jinping stressed that “peaceful coexistence, generational friendship, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common development” are the correct directions that align with the fundamental interests of the people of China and Japan. He emphasized that both sides should focus on common interests, handle differences prudently, adhere to the principles established in the four political documents between China and Japan, and reaffirmed the positioning of the strategic mutually beneficial relationship, imbuing it with new significance.
Xi Jinping and Fumio Kishida were both in San Francisco to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
According to reports from Japan’s Kyodo News, Kishida is expected to call on China to lift the import ban on Japanese seafood.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida tells Chinese President Xi Jinping they should work together for brighter ties, as the two leaders sit down to their first bilateral summit in a year https://t.co/iwnW4Ynixk pic.twitter.com/9bMPFx281E
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