Japan Official Urges China to Expand Foreign Investment Quota
'I'd like to request that China continue to move forward with its financial opening to the rest of the world,' Satoru Shibata, an adviser to the Financial Services Agency on China issues, said at a forum in Tokyo Friday, according to prepared remarks seen by Bloomberg.
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