Japan's National Security Advisor is due to visit China starting form today.

日本国家安全顾问按计划将于今天访问中国。

Shotaro Yachi is due to have a high-level political dialogue with Chinese authorities.

He is here on the invitation of Chinese consular Yang Jiechi.

Topics on the table is said to be including bilateral relations and issues of mutual interest.

For more on this, we spoke earlier with Zhang Weiwei, Assistant Researcher Fellow, with the Department of Asia-Pacific Security and Cooperation Studies, China Institute of International Studies.