{"id":52854,"date":"2023-02-22T22:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T13:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/china-and-japan-meet-tokyo-formal-security-talks-stabilise-tensions-military"},"modified":"2023-02-22T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T13:01:39","slug":"china-and-japan-meet-for-formal-security-talks-to-stabilise-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52854","title":{"rendered":"China and Japan meet for formal security talks to stabilise tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials meet in Tokyo to discuss concerns at China\u2019s cooperation with Russia and Japan\u2019s military buildup<\/p>\n<p>Chinese and Japanese officials met in Tokyo on Wednesday for formal security talks for the first time in four years, in a meeting aimed at stabilising increasingly strained relations.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/16\/japan-approves-biggest-military-buildup-since-second-world-war-amid-china-fears\">national security strategy<\/a>, released in December, China was described as \u201cthe greatest strategic challenge\u201d to Japan\u2019s peace and security.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/china-and-japan-meet-tokyo-formal-security-talks-stabilise-tensions-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials meet in Tokyo to discuss concerns at China\u2019s cooperation with Russia and Japan\u2019s military buildupChinese and Japanese officials met in Tokyo on Wednesday for formal security talks for the first time in four years, in a meeting aimed at stabil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,88,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-russia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52855,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52854\/revisions\/52855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}