BEIJING >> China and Russia reached “broad consensus” on a range of issues during the Chinese foreign minister’s trip to Moscow this week, amid a burst of diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine and as Beijing seeks to rally support in a row with Tokyo.

Beijing and Moscow must “continue to coordinate and cooperate, to resolutely subdue Japanese far-right forces’ provocative actions to undermine regional peace and stability and attempts at remilitarising,” Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, according to a Chinese ministry statement released on Wednesday.

The remarks come amid the worst diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Tokyo in years, after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said last month a hypothetical Chinese attack on democratically ruled Taiw

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