From Financial Times: “Tokyo and Beijing should not turn the East China Sea into “the sea of confrontation”, Junichiro Koizumi, Japan’s prime minister, told Hu Jintao, China’s president, in a rare encounter between the two leaders.
Meeting in Santiago, for the first time in more than a year, the leaders of Asia’s two biggest economies made little progress in resolving diplomatic disputes, including a war of words over gas exploration in the East China Sea. ”