A small group of bipartisan lawmakers from the Japanese National Assembly visits China... Seeking to improve relationships

Promoting interviews with executives of the China-Foreign Friendship Association... Relations deteriorate after Takaichi's remarks with Taiwan

(Tokyo = Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Do-yeon = Kyodo News reported that small lawmakers from the bipartisan Japan-China Friendship Parliamentary League of the Japanese National Assembly visited China on the 13th.

According to reports, eight ruling and opposition party lawmakers, including Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Masahiro Komura and Centrist Reform Coalition lawmaker Hiromasa Nakano, visited China for three days until the 15th.

On the 14th, it was reported that a meeting with an executive of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries was being coordinated.

This visit is interpreted as an intention to find clues to improving the relationship between China and Japan, which has been worsening due to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks in November last year suggesting "intervention in Taiwan in case of emergency" through parliamentary diplomacy.

The Japanese ruling and opposition party members of the National Assembly visited China last month and met with Lu Kang, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China.

Shinichi Lee, public information committee chairman of the Coalition for Centrist Reform, and Hiroyuki Konishi, a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party's House of Councilors, met with Vice Minister Lu in Beijing on the 27th and proposed the resumption of youth and cultural exchanges between China and Japan.

However, Vice Minister Lu is reported to have said, "The Chinese government has no intention of changing its policy (towards Japan)" unless Prime Minister Takaichi's remarks on "Taiwan's intervention in case of emergency" and perceptions regarding Taiwan change.