TOKYO: US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel on Monday strongly criticized China for so-called economic coercion against neighboring countries.

In a meeting hosted in Tokyo by the Research Institute of Japan, a Jiji Press affiliate, Emanuel also said that the leaders of the Group of Seven major countries are expected to discuss the nonuse of nuclear weapons and the creation of sufficient deterrent power at their summit meeting next month in Hiroshima, western Japan.

JIJI Press