China rules out leaders’ summit with Japan

BEIJING: Beijing has ruled out any imminent leaders’ summit with Tokyo, Chinese state-run media said on Tuesday after a Japanese official raised the possibility, in a rebuff underscoring tensions over a long-running maritime dispute.

Asia’s two largest economies are locked in a bitter row over a string of islands in the resource-rich East China Sea, known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan.