Hong Liang (R), head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs, shakes hands with Takehiro Funakoshi (L), director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, at the beginning of a high-level dialogue on maritime affairs in Tokyo on April 10, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
China and Japan on Monday held the 15th round of high-level consultations on maritime affairs in Tokyo, their first face-to-face meeting under the mechanism since 2019.
