China, Japan more upbeat on ties but challenges remain

Here the saying "Action speaks louder than words." makes much more sense than any public announcement by either.

and stop spreading or echoing all kinds of ‘China threat’ or ‘China economic recession’ theories”, the ministry said in a statement.

To be fair to Japan, if there's one country that knows about recession, it'd be them.

Watch what they done not what they said.

China might maybe be the 2nd potential economy in numbers but it's the most important economy in the world. By means of production, consumer market and geo economics.