China on Thursday rejected remarks by former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda that Beijing had expressed willingness to improve ties between Asia’s two biggest economies, and said there was “no change” in its policy on Tokyo.
Relations between China and Japan have been frayed by rows over the legacy of Japan’s wartime militarism, a territorial feud over tiny islands in the East China Sea, and mutual distrust over defense policies.
China’s foreign ministry was asked to respond to a speech on Wednesday in which Fukuda described his recent meetings with Chinese leaders, and added that both sides had shown the same sense of crisis over Sino-Japanese ties.
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