Obama urges de-escalation, dialogue in China-Japan maritime row

RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama urged his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to "de-escalate" a contentious territorial dispute with Japan and deal with the matter through diplomatic channels, Obama's national security adviser said on Saturday. Obama told Xi "the parties should seek to de-escalate, not escalate, and the parties should seek to have conversations about this through diplomatic channels, and not through actions out on the East China Sea," Thomas Donilon told reporters after a two-day informal summit in California. ...



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