After months of near-zero political contact, Japanese lawmakers have returned to Beijing in search of steady relations even as neither government shows signs of yielding.
An eight-member delegation from the Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians’ Union met senior Chinese officials Monday, just weeks after a smaller cross-party group made the first such visit since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about a possible Taiwan contingency plunged bilateral relations into their deepest crisis in years.
Led by former State Minister of Justice Masahiro Komura, the latest group — comprising lawmakers from five ruling and opposition parties — held talks with Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Bin and Yang Wanming, the president of the state-backed Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.
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