A Meeting of the Minds

| November 12, 2014
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Did Japan and China just press reset?  The CIP’s J. Berkshire Miller provides analysis in Foreign Affairs.

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[comment/analysis] After months of back-channel diplomacy, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese leader Xi Jinping finally met this week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing. The Abe-Xi meeting is long overdue and represents the first time the leaders from the world’s second and third biggest economies have talked since Abe took office in December 2012. Beijing had simply refused to meet with Tokyo at the summit level ever since the previous Japanese administration made the ill-fated decision to purchase three of the disputed Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands in September 2012.

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Category: FOREIGN POLICY & SECURITY, SOUTH ASIA & ASIA PACIFIC

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J. Berkshire Miller is a Founding Director of the Council on International Policy, a fellow on East Asia for the EastWest Institute and also Chair of the Japan-Korea Working Group for the Pacific Forum CSIS.

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