Beijing, October 25
China and Japan should safeguard free trade and anchor global growth, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday, as Japan’s PM arrived in Beijing on a visit against a backdrop of trade friction with the United States. Shinzo Abe’s three-day visit is expected to carve out new scope for cooperation between Asia’s two biggest economies. It is also expected to promote trust, which has been fragile at times since they restored diplomatic relations in 1972.
“We hope both sides will work hard to promote peace, safeguard multilateralism and free trade, and become the axis of stability, growth and momentum for not just Asia but the world,” Li said. Abe, who arrived hours earlier on his first formal bilateral summit with Chinese leaders in seven years, said the two countries were playing “an indispensable role in the economic development of not just Asia but the world”. — Reuters
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