China calls for "appropriate preparations" for Xi's visit to Japan

The Chinese government said Thursday that Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told a Japanese senior diplomat that the two countries should "make appropriate preparations" for President Xi Jinping's planned state visit to Japan in the spring.During their talks in China on Wednesday, Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba told Wang that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government will also "make every effort to ensure a successful visit of Xi," according to a website of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.The two diplomats met amid growing expectations that Beijing and Tokyo will craft a new political docu…READ FULL ARTICLE