TOKYO/TAIPEI -- In the first such trip in almost three decades, Taiwanese Vice Premier Cheng Wen-tsan visited Japan this week to meet Japanese lawmakers, as the two sides step up high-level exchanges amid tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
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Taiwanese Vice Premier Cheng Wen-tsan. left, shakes hands with Toshimitsu Motegi, the secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, in Tokyo on June 28. © Kyodo
TOKYO/TAIPEI -- In the first such trip in almost three decades, Taiwanese Vice Premier Cheng Wen-tsan visited Japan this week to meet Japanese lawmakers, as the two sides step up high-level exchanges amid tensions in the Taiwan Strait.