Previous Encounters of heads of states

Hu and Noda

In a brief encounter outside the APEC leaders summit in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept 9, 2012, then-Chinese president Hu Jintao warned then-Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda not to make provocations over China's Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.

Hu told Noda that China-Japan ties had reached a grim situation concerning the Diaoyu Islands and "any action by Japan to 'purchase' the Diaoyu Islands is illegal and invalid, and China is firmly against it".