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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese and Japanese officials China, who met in the north, comes amid renewed tensions over Beijing's military threat to Taiwan after Tokyo protested China's launch of missiles into Japan's exclusive economic zone during recent military exercises.
Wednesday's meeting between senior foreign policy adviser Yang Jiechi and Japan's national security director Takeo Akiba said China had canceled a post-Japan foreign ministers' meeting between the two countries. followed. signed her G7 developed nations statement earlier this month criticizing China's threatening war game over Taiwan.
Japan has issued a diplomatic protest after China launched a missile into its exclusive economic zone during military exercises. During the exercise, Chinese fighter jets and naval vessels crossed the middle zone of the Taiwan Strait, which has long served as a buffer zone for both sides.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory and will annex it by force if necessary. The former Japanese colony has been under Chinese military threat since Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government fled to the island in 1949 as Mao Zedong's Communist Party seized control of mainland China.
In his comments to Takeo, Mr. Yang said, "The Taiwan issue depends on the political foundation of Japan-China relations and the basic trust and sincerity between the two countries. It's on,' he said. news agency reported on Thursday.
"Japan... should form a correct perception of China, pursue a positive, realistic and rational China policy, and support the right direction of peaceful development," Xinhua said. Quoted from Yang.
After U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in defiance of Beijing's threats, China held military exercises around Taiwan for nearly two weeks.
China has announced further drills following the visit of another congressional delegation this week, but has not said when or where it will take place.
The exercise will help Taiwan's more than 23 million people overwhelmingly support the status quo of de facto independence while maintaining strong economic ties with China. seems to have little effect on
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China's threat to Taiwan has been likened to a Russian invasion of its neighbor. Shortly before Moscow sent its troops in his February, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Beijing, declaring that the relationship between the two countries had "no limits," and that Russia was ready for China. supported its claims against Taiwan.
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