Tokyo has expressed concern with Beijing over policies that could give Chinese companies unfair advantages when competing on new technologies, joining a chorus of other countries that have made similar complaints.
Taro Kono, Japan’s foreign minister, used a round of economic talks with China to raise questions over forced transfers of technology, intellectual property protection and industrial subsidies to state companies, Takeshi Osuga, an assistant minister at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told reporters.
A Japanese delegation met Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and a number of other ministers on Sunday at the fifth so-called high-level economic dialogue between the world’s second and third largest economies.