Sparks fly between China and Japan over Huawei

At high-level dialogue, Beijing urges Tokyo not to wall off 5G business

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, and Japanese counterpart Taro Kono in Beijing on April 15. © Getty Images

YUKIO TAJIMA and TSUKASA HADANO, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO/BEIJING -- China's foreign minister has urged Japan not to shut Chinese telecommunications companies out of 5G network-related business, accusing Tokyo of singling out Huawei Technologies.

"Why is the Japanese government excluding Huawei?" Wang Yi asked counterpart Taro Kono at the two countries' high-level economic dialogue in Beijing on Sunday. 

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