On February 1st, according to foreign media reports, US President Trump said on Friday that he will meet with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House next week. Officials familiar with the matter said that Japan plans to "make concessions" in energy, defense and other fields to avoid trade friction with the United States.
On November 16th, on the afternoon of November 15th local time, President Xi Jinping met with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba during the APEC Economic Leaders' Informal Meeting in Lima. Xi Jinping stressed that China and Japan's economic interests and industrial chain supply chains are deeply integrated, and the two sides should adhere to win-win cooperation and maintain the stability and smooth flow of the global free trade system and production and supply chain.