Yamaguchi in Beijing, meets with top Chinese officials

December 3 , 2017

Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Hunin and Yamaguchi met in Beijing on Dec. 1-2Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Hunin (right) and Yamaguchi met in Beijing on Dec. 1-2

On December 1, Komeito Chief Representative Natsuo Yamaguchi met with People’s Republic of China President Xi Jinping in Beijing, where they spoke briefly on forging stronger bilateral ties and the possibility of the Chinese leader’s visit to Japan in 2018. At the meeting, the Komeito party chief hand-delivered a letter from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to President Xi.

Earlier that day, Yamaguchi met with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang. The two agreed on the need for close cooperation and coordination to dissuade North Korea from further developing its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs.

Yamaguchi was in China to take part in a meeting of representatives from some 300 political parties of more than 120 countries hosted by the Chinese Communist Party’s International Liaison Department. On December 2, he joined a group discussion led by Wang Hunin, a member of China’s powerful Politburo Standing Committee whom the Japanese party leader had met a day earlier, and was one of six speakers on the occasion.

Yamaguchi’s latest meeting with President Xi was the fourth since 2010.