Japanese Foreign Minister "Takaichi coordinates China's attendance at APEC... Sino-Japanese talks are under review"

(Tokyo = Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Do-yeon = The Japanese government announced that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is making arrangements to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit to be held in Shenzhen, China in November, and that a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping has not been decided.

According to Kyodo News on the 27th, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said this at the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the House of Councilors (Senate).

Regarding the meeting with President Xi, he explained, "Bilateral talks are currently under review, and we will refrain from saying which countries we will hold talks with at this stage."

While China-Japan relations have deteriorated due to Prime Minister Takaichi's remarks in November last year suggesting 'Taiwan's intervention in an emergency', attention is being paid to whether a meeting between Prime Minister Takaichi and President Xi will be held at the APEC summit next month.

Regarding Sino-Japanese relations, Foreign Minister Motegi emphasized that "we must properly accept" the history of the four political documents between China and Japan, which expressed full understanding and respect for China's position of 'one China'.

The four political documents between China and Japan are the China-Japan Joint Statement issued when the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1972, the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship signed by the foreign ministers of both countries in 1978, the 'Joint Declaration on Efforts to Establish a Friendly and Cooperative Partnership for Peace and Development' announced by the two countries in 1998, and the 'Joint Statement on the Comprehensive Promotion of China-Japan Strategic Mutual Benefit Relations' signed by the leaders of the two countries in 2008.

Foreign Minister Motegi said, "China is an important neighboring country, and we want to build a constructive and stable relationship through communication."