China, Japan will properly handle differences -foreign ministry

Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Wednesday that China and Japan will properly handle differences and build a bilateral relationship in accordance with the new era.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, according to Japan’s top government spokesman, for talks that come amid rising tensions in Asia over Taiwan and North Korea.

Both leaders are in Indonesia for a Group of 20 summit on Tuesday and both will then travel to Thailand for an APEC summit later in the week, where they are due to meet, the Japanese government spokesman said. Sino-Japanese ties have long been plagued by a dispute over a group of tiny uninhabited East China Sea islets, a legacy of Japan’s World War Two aggression and regional rivalry