BEIJING: China's top diplomat has called on South Korea and Japan to know their "roots" and reject Western influences, in racially charged comments to officials from Seoul and Tokyo.
Speaking at the International Forum for Trilateral Cooperation in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao on Monday, Wang Yi — who is in charge of the ruling Communist Party's foreign policy — said Western powers had deliberately "played up ideological differences between the countries," state media reported.
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