What happened
High-level talks between China and Japan are unlikely to resolve deep-seated rifts between the two nations, according to analysts. China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vice Premier He Lifeng recently met with Takeshi Iwaya, president of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade and a former Japanese foreign minister. The meetings were seen as an attempt by Beijing to keep channels with Tokyo open, but experts say China's pressure tactics are driving Japan away.
China has been subjecting Japan to military provocations and economic coercion since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that Japan would be justified in deploying its Self-Defense Forces if Taiwan were attacked. Wang told Iwaya that Japan's leaders need to
