JAPAN PM TO MEET CHINA’S XI IN BANGKOK

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday at an APEC gathering in Bangkok, Tokyo’s top government spokesman said.

“Prime Minister Kishida is scheduled to hold a Japanchina summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 17th, on the occasion of the APEC summit,” Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters.

The leaders spoke on the phone in October 2021 after Kishida’s election, but this will be their first in-person meeting. Xi last held face-to-face talks with a Japanese prime minister in December 2019.