Japan, China foreign chiefs skip meeting in Cambodia

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From left to right, Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pose for a group photo during the ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Phnom Penh on Thursday.

TOKYO (Jiji Press)—Japan and China forwent a meeting between their foreign ministers that was initially being arranged to take place in Cambodia on Thursday, a Japanese government source revealed.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, were expected to meet in person on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations-related meetings there.