Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Sunday in Vietnam with a Taiwanese politician, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping warned him not to break with the past consensus on what Beijing regards as a renegade province.
Abe held a 30-minute meeting with James Soong, head of the People First Party and Taiwan’s special envoy to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders’ meeting, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Danang, Vietnam, according to the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo.
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