For eight years, China and Japan had been in a standoff over territorial rights to the Senkaku Islands, a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan.
High-level bilateral talks were put on hold—until this week.
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) meets with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on April 16, 2018. Toru Hanai/AFP/Getty Images
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