No progress between Japan and China; Central Conference on Work Related to Law-Based Governance; PRC buys US soybeans; Syria to repatriate Uyghur jihadist fighters?

Kanai Masaaki, Director-General of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau met with Liu Jinsong, Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Tuesday. There appears to have bee…