Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Deng Li was on Thursday instructed to urgently summon the Japanese ambassador to China Tarumi Hideo to lodge solemn representations over the negative Taiwan-related statement issued by the G7 foreign ministers and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
China has summoned the ambassadors of Japan and European countries to lodge a strong protest over a Group of Seven statement issued this week expressing concern regarding Beijing's response to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Friday. China's Vice Foreign Minister…
Continuing to play the US spearhead in Asia, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday after she paid a highly provocative visit to the island of Taiwan and criticized China s military drills around the island, which analysts said showcased Japan s calculation to cooperate with the US on containing China while expanding its own military strength.
A staffer at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing was detained temporarily by authorities Feb. 21 in the Chinese capital, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry