Japanese officals and observers are lauding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s now-concluded visit to China.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the visit has set the stage for the development of bilateral ties into a new phase.
“The visit has assured that leaders are willing to continue to push forward normal communication of the two sides. Two countries have reached agreements on specific cooperative projects in economy, people-to-people exchanges, maritime safety and security and other issues. The visit has seen positive results,” Suga says.
During Abe’s visit, the People’s Bank of China and Japan’s central bank inked a bilateral currency swap agreement.
A forum on third-party market cooperation saw the signing of over 50 cooperation agreements worth more than 18 billion U.S. dollars.
Ube Frontier University professor Tomisaka Satoshi says a healthy relationship with China is going to create a lot of benefits for Japan’s economy.
“The important thing is that two sides no longer confront one another. To some extent cooperation with China is also key to the economic development of Japan in the future,” Satoshi says.
Shinzo Abe wrapped up his two-day visit to China and returned to Japan on Saturday after meeting with leading Chinese officials, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang.
