BEIJING — China’s president and Japan’s prime minister held a brief, surprise meeting Friday at a Group of 20 summit in Russia in the first contact between leaders of the Asian neighbors since tensions flared a year ago in an island dispute.
The short chat between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was unlikely to bring any immediate end to the tensions. But it was an indication that Xi wants to stem any further deterioration in ties, which Beijing placed on ice last September when Tokyo nationalized a group of islands also claimed by China.
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