Photo: Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian

"China-Japan relations are currently facing serious difficulties, and the root cause lies in Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's erroneous remarks related to the Taiwan question. The responsibility lies entirely with the Japanese side," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Thursday, when responding to a Japanese media inquiry about whether China hopes to restore people-to-people exchanges between the two countries amid increasingly reduced exchanges between Japan and China.

Lin said that if the Japanese side truly wants to improve China-Japan relations, it should abide by the four political documents between China and Japan and its own commitments, retract the erroneous remarks, take concrete actions to safeguard the political foundation of bilateral relations, and create the necessary conditions for normal exchanges and interactions between the two countries.


Global Times