The leaders of China and Japan met Wednesday for the first time since last year and said relations were warming, a development Tokyo officials attribute to the pressure both feel from President Trump. “Japan-China relations have been moving in the direction of great improvement,” said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Vladivostok, Russia, where both are attending an economic conference.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 12, 2018 06:11 UTC