TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s representative to last weekend’s APEC summit rebuffed Chinese protests on Monday about his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi while there, saying that it was “very normal” for him to meet leaders attending.

China said it had lodged a strong protest with Japan about the meeting on the sidelines of the summit in South Korea, after Takaichi had posted about it on her X account and referred to Taiwan’s representative Lin Hsin-i as a senior adviser to the presidential office.

Lin, a former economy minister, told reporters in Taipei that all the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) delegations took part on an equal footing and all the leaders and representatives talked to each other.

“There’s nothing strange about it. There were a lot of these k

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