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China’s top diplomat Wang Yi complained Tuesday about Japanese lawmakers’ visits to Taiwan, while noting that more of them travel there than to the mainland, which claims the self-ruled democratic island, a senior Japanese ruling party member said. Hiroshi Moriyama, chief of the Liberal Democratic Party’s decision-making general council, told reporters that Wang expressed the concern to him during a meeting in Beijing. Moriyama, who made a five-day trip to China through Tuesday, said factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic have prevented many Japanese Diet members from visiting mainland, but he …

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