China-Japan ties: Coronavirus and US tensions cloud hopes for ‘new era’

This year was supposed to usher in a new era of cooperation between China and Japan. At the G20 summit in Osaka in 2019, both countries agreed that it was time for a reboot in the relationship.But hopes of that new era have faded amid the coronavirus pandemic and a sharply decline in the relationship between Beijing and Washington.There were still positive signs in February. As China grappled with an epidemic that first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Japan sent urgently needed…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3095834/coronavirus-and-us-tensions-cloud-hopes-new-era-china-japan