Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang (Photo source: fmprc.gov) BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign minister Wang Yi may have bilateral contact with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida as the two will attend a trilateral meeting between China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (ROK), a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The Eighth China-Japan-ROK foreign ministers' meeting will be held in in Tokyo on Wednesday and Wang will attend the meeting upon invitation, spokesperson Lu Kang said.
Lu said it is quite normal for parties to have some contact and exchanges during multilateral occasions.
Regardless of the opposition from regional neighbors and the international community, Japan has been known to hype up the South China Sea issue, Lu said.
Wang will state China's solemn position on the issue and urge Japan to bring bilateral ties back on a healthy, stable track, Lu said.
Relatives of a Canadian man beheaded by Islamic militants in the Philippines said Tuesday that they agree with Canada's policy of not paying ransom for hostages.
Robert Hall had been held hostage by the militant Abu Sayyaf group since September 2015. The deadline for a ransom payment passed Monday Men's Adidas Ultra Boost 3.0 Multi-Color Shoes Cheap , and Abu Sayyaf released a gruesome video of Hall's beheading. It shows Hall in an orange shirt kneeling in front of a black Islamic State-style flag in a jungle area before he was killed. Officials in the Philippines have confirmed his death.
Hall's family said in a statement that every option to free him was considered and efforts to that end were "vast and exhaustive."
In the end, the family says it agrees with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's directive that money not be paid to hostage takers who seek to undermine fundamental Canadian values.
"Our family, even in our darkest hour, agrees wholeheartedly with Canada's policy of not paying ransom to those who would seek to undermine the fundamental values with which my father lived his life Adidas Ultra Boost 3.0 Limited Core Black Men's Shoes Sale ," the family statement reads. "We stand with the ideals that built this country: strength of character; resilience of spirit; and refusal to succumb to the demands of the wretched, in order to satisfy the bloodlust of the weak."
Another Canadian, former mining executive John Ridsdel, was beheaded by Abu Sayyaf in April. The fate of two other hostages