Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Saturday to promote efforts toward improving bilateral ties, with each riding high after further consolidating power at home.
Xi said he wants to advance "positive developments" but added that more needs to be done in the process of improving ties between the two countries, in the meeting with Abe on the sidelines of a regional economic summit in the Vietnamese coastal city of Danang.
Abe, in response at the outset of the meeting, agreed with Xi that he wants to "strongly promote" ongoing efforts and also expressed a desire to deepen cooperation with China in dealing with North Korea's flurry of provocative weapons tests.