Japan's Asahi Shimbun reported on October 12, 2014, that Shotaro Yachi, Adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chief of the newly established National Security Secretariat, attended the secret meeting between former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Chinese President Xi Jinping in China in July. It said the discloure indicates that Japan and China have begun high-level talks to explore holding a summit to break the diplomatic impasse between the two nations.