China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met in Beijing on Monday with former Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, who is leading a 50-member delegation of business executives, marking the highest official Chinese reception for a Japanese visit in nearly a year.
Analysts have warned that the high-level welcome given to Wang should not be seen as an opening to a diplomatic thaw between Beijing and Tokyo. Instead, they viewed the meeting as a calculated exercise in selective engagement by Beijing.
During the discussions, Wang warned that bilateral relations The countries were facing a “serious situation” and had “yet to be normalized” before the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations next year, according to a statement from China’s Foreign Ministry.
“A country that challenges its post-war ‘peace constitution’ or attempts to rewrite the history of wartime aggression… cannot face the world, let alone open up a future,” Wang said.
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