China, Japan Heads Hold Landmark Meeting

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met in a landmark summit that is the most positive sign for the strained China-Japan relationship since both leaders came to power in 2012. The face-to-face meeting was part of the two nations’ agreement to resume security and foreign-policy talks that had been on ice for two years. The Asian behemoths have been locked in a bitter dispute over the contested Senkaku Islands and Abe’s decision to visit the controversial Yasukuni shrine last year. The spat has sent relations between the two countries to their worst state since 1972.