In a significant move to strengthen ties, Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya in Beijing this Wednesday. 🌏
Premier Li emphasized that China-Japan relations are at a crucial stage of improvement and development. He stated, \\"China is willing to work with Japan to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, promote sustained and healthy development of bilateral relations, and achieve more new results in pragmatic cooperation.\\"
Highlighting the closeness of the two nations, Li noted that China and Japan are \\"close neighbors that cannot be moved away from each other.\\" 🏘️ He called for both countries to face history squarely and look to the future, suggesting that they should manage differences constructively and focus on the bigger picture of their relationship.
Li urged for expanded economic and trade relations, deeper mutually beneficial cooperation, and strengthened people-to-people exchanges. 🤝
On the other side, Minister Iwaya expressed Japan's willingness to collaborate with China. He mentioned that Japan aims to strengthen exchanges at all levels, especially among people, promote mutually beneficial cooperation, and improve public opinion towards each other. 🇯🇵❤️🇨🇳
\\"We hope to comprehensively advance strategic relations of mutual benefit and build constructive and stable Japan-China relations,\\" Iwaya said.
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Premier Li: China-Japan relations at crucial stage of improvement
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