Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday thatChina-Japan there is no room to compromise with Japan on issues of territory or history.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday that there is no room to compromise with Japan on issues of territory or history.

China’s relations with Japan have deteriorated in the past 18 months over a dispute about a chain of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea that both nations claim as theirs.

China’s ties with Japan have been poisoned for years, at what China sees as Japan’s failure to atone for its occupation of parts of China before and during the Second World War.