{"id":8773,"date":"2024-10-03T12:31:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T07:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=8773"},"modified":"2024-10-03T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T07:31:42","slug":"xi-extends-congratulations-to-shigeru-ishiba-on-election-as-japanese-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/xi-extends-congratulations-to-shigeru-ishiba-on-election-as-japanese-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi extends congratulations to Shigeru Ishiba on election as Japanese PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) &#8212; Chinese President Xi Jinping extended on Tuesday congratulations to Shigeru Ishiba on his election as Japanese prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xi noted that China and Japan are neighbors separated by a strip of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It serves the fundamental interests of the two peoples for both sides to walk on a road of peaceful coexistence, everlasting friendship, mutually beneficial cooperation and common development, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xi also expressed his hope that Japan can work together with China in abiding by the principles and consensus established in the four political documents between the two countries, and promoting a strategic relationship of mutual benefit in an all-round way, in an effort to build a constructive and stable China-Japan relationship that meets the requirements of the new era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same day, Chinese Premier Li Qiang also sent congratulations to Ishiba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Li said the two sides should maintain the political foundation of bilateral relations, and enhance friendship, mutual trust and cooperation so as to better benefit the people of the two countries.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) &#8212; Chinese President Xi Jinping extended on Tuesday congratulations to Shigeru Ishiba on his election as Japanese prime minister. Xi noted that China and Japan are neighbors separated by a strip of water. It serves the fundamental interests of the two peoples for both sides to walk on a road of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":8774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81,396,342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-china","category-latest","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}