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The leaders of China and Japan will hold their first face-to-face talks in three years on Thursday, after North Korea fired the latest in a record-breaking missile blitz that has sent nuclear fears soaring. Chinese President Xi Jinping flies into the talks in Bangkok from a G20 meeting in Bali where US President Joe Biden pressed him to use his influence to rein in Pyongyang's activities. As Xi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida prepared to meet, North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile and warned Washington and its allies to expect a "fiercer" military response. Seoul and Washington have warned the North could be preparing to carry out a nuclear test -- which would be its seventh. The G20 was upended by fears that a deadly missile strike on Poland signalled a dangerous escalation of Russia's war in Ukraine.
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