G20 Policy Brief - Two Tigers at the Summit: Sino-Japanese Relations in the G20

By Hugo Dobson - 02 December 2018

Despite lurching from crisis to crisis over the last decade, relations between China and Japan have recently improved as symbolised by Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s first state visit to China in October 2018 that coincided with the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the two countries. This policy brief explores these developments within the context of the G20 and argues that it can provide a valuable forum to bolster the recent upturn in relations, especially in light of Japan’s assumption of the G20 Presidency in 2019.

 

 

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