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 . Xi and Abe have launched a very fragile process that could easily be derailed or flounder for a lack of political support or a public backlash . 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 . The U.S. and China are locked in a trade war that has cost millions of jobs across both nations.