Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe . Their meeting was frosty but it was progress , says Jeff Kingston . Relations have been severely strained between the two countries in recent years . The U.S. and China are locked in a trade war that has cost millions of jobs across both nations.
Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe . Their meeting was frosty but it was progress , says Jeff Kingston . Relations have been severely strained between the two countries in recent years . At the heart of the tensions is a bitter territorial dispute .