Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, is confident that the country's bilateral relations with China have returned to its "normal track," marking the improving ties between the two Asian nations, a statement released to local news outfit on Sunday indicated.
The Japanese PM told Sankei newspaper that his Chinese counterpart, Premier Li Keqiang, has visited the country in May which paved way for the Sino-Japan relations to completely return to "a normal track," the report from CNBC said.
Abe, who is reportedly scheduled to visit Beijing before this year ends, also told the media outlet that he hoped to invite Chinese President Xi Jinping himself to Japan in the near future.
Japan and China's joint efforts to mend broken ties come in a perfect timing as the Trump administration continues to make its drastic move on the global economy by waging trade wars with other countries, particularly with the Xi Jinping government.
Japan's Ministry of Finance chief Zaimu Daijin shared the same optimism saying that the recent development going on between Tokyo and Beijing, specifically in the financial sector, was rather "extremely good," according to a report from Japan Today.
In a joint communiqué released to the press, the two Asian neighbors pledged to maintain the trade and economic cooperation in the region.
As indicated in a previous report from this site, the Chinese PM himself was confident that the two countries are on the right path moving against the Western economic idealism of protectionism and unilateralism, instigated by the Trump government.
Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan's Visit
Meanwhile, a report from the South China Morning Post said that Toshiro Nikai, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan has sent a formal invitation to Chinese VP Wang Qishan to visit Japan.
According to SCMP, a delegation of high-ranking Japanese officials met with Wang on Friday to discuss Abe's upcoming trip to China.
The report says the bilateral summit will likely to take place on October of this year. The significance of the date relates to the 40th-anniversary celebration of the signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
In response, Wang reportedly said that the occasion would be an opportunity for not only for Tokyo and Beijing to expand cooperation in the economic front, but also to deepen their sense of political trust for each other.
The Treaty of Peace and Friendship
The pact was first signed between the Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua and counterpart Sunao Sonoda on August 1978. The Beijing Accord, as it is now being called, requires the two parties to establish, develop, and maintain peace and friendship based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-Existence.
