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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Amy Hawkins

China and Japan meet for formal security talks to stabilise tensions

Sun Weidong, the Chinese deputy foreign minister (holding microphone), speaking to his Japanese counterparts at the foreign ministry in Tokyo.
Sun Weidong, the Chinese deputy foreign minister (holding microphone), speaking to his Japanese counterparts at the foreign ministry in Tokyo. Photograph: Shuji Kajiyama/AFP/Getty Images

Chinese and Japanese officials met in Tokyo on Wednesday for formal security talks for the first time in four years, in a meeting aimed at stabilising increasingly strained relations.

In Japan’s national security strategy, released in December, China was described as “the greatest strategic challenge” to Japan’s peace and security.

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