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
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.
Annie Wu
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Annie Wu joined the full-time staff at the Epoch Times in July 2014. That year, she won a first-place award from the New York Press Association for best spot news coverage. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.