From Financial Times:
Tokyo and Beijing are set to resume military exchanges this year with the goal of holding mutual naval visits that would bring Japanese warships into Chinese ports for the first time since the second world war, Japanese officials said on Monday.
The renewed effort to build ties between Asia’s two most powerful militaries reflects a dramatic improvement in Sino-Japanese political relations since Shinzo Abe, Japanese prime minister, took office in September. Japan and China resumed high-level defence meetings in November after a three-year hiatus.
Japanese warship visits to China, where memories remain strong of Tokyo’s brutal occupation of much of the country between 1931 and 1945, would mark a huge symbolic step forward for bilateral ties.[Full Text]
