Analysis: Why China denied its foreign minister had chat with Japan’s

The latest flashpoint in Japan's and China's deteriorating relations is Japan's southernmost island of Okinotori, near which Chinese naval vessels recently held machine-gun firing drills. China denies Okinotori is an island. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Kyodo and Reuters) China's live-fire drills in Japan's EEZ show bilateral freeze won't thaw anytime soon Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent, and later as China bureau chief, and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.

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