Beijing: African views omitted

Beijing has urged Tokyo "not to impose its will upon African countries" after Japan failed to insert maritime security issues into an outcome document of a recent Japan-African ministerial meeting on boosting Africa's development.

"The content about maritime issues was completely unilaterally brought up by Japan, no single attending African country echoed it, and many African countries made comments to voice their objection," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Monday.

Experts said that Tokyo was using the meeting to push African countries to follow its containment strategy against China on the South China Sea issue.