Japan, China To Hold Security Talks Next Week

Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi meets with Chinese foreign policy chief Wang Yi on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich on Sunday. JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTRY / VIA KYODO  

Reuters: Japan, China to hold security talks next week, Japan foreign minister 

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan and China will hold security talks next week, Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said after meeting his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. 

The agreement to hold the security talks, the first to be held in four years, came after Hayashi and China's top diplomat Wang Yi spoke ahead of the conference. 

 "It is important for us to have frank discussions precisely because there are a number of pressing matters in our relationship", Hayashi said to reporters, highlighting a territorial spat in the East China Sea and increasing Chinese and Russian military presence around Japanese waters as some of the issues that need to be discussed. 

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WNU Editor: Chinese media is saying these talks are long overdue .... China, Japan agree to hold 1st security talks since 2019, 'signaling attempt to stabilize ties' (Global Times). 

As to what do I expect from these talks. Nothing much, but at least it opens up communications. 

 Japan, China To Hold Security Talks Next Week  

Japan conveys spy balloon concerns to China as two sides agree to security talks -- Japan Times 

Japan, China agree to hold talks "at all levels" to improve ties -- Kyodo News  

Japan, China Agree To Hold Senior-level Defence Talks -- AFP