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Beijing: China Saturday threatened that if the Japanese issued visas to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer, it could cast doubt on Premier Wen Jiabao's proposed visit to the country.
The step would "surely have a negative impact" on bilateral ties and could lead to the cancellation of the proposed visit of Jiabao, state run China daily said. Jiabao is likely to visit Japan next month.
The Dalai Lama is scheduled to come to Japan on June 18 to participate in a service at a Buddhist temple in Nagano, and deliver speeches in Ishikawa and Kanagawa prefectures.
Rebiya Kadeer, accused by Beijing as the mastermind behind riots in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in early July 2009, plans to attend symposiums in Tokyo and Osaka.
The two "separatists" will be visiting the country for the second time since the Democratic Party of Japan headed Yukio Hatoyama came to power.
Hatoyama is respected in China for his promise to move closer to China to improve the relations.
"This is definitely going to negatively impact Sino-Japanese relations," the daily quoted, Feng Zhaokui, former deputy head of the institute of Japan Studies at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as saying.
In October Beijing strongly condemned Tokyo's issuing of a visa to Kadeer, when the 59-year-old left her home in the US for Japan for the first time.
Japan is also the Dalai Lama's most visited Asian nation. It has received the 76-year-old a total of 15 times since 1987, and during the past several years the "Tibetan separatist" increased his visits, it said.
Feng said domestic pressure contributed to the visa granting process, while China's strong dissatisfaction has made Tokyo feel uncomfortable, shunning formal greetings with the two.
"(Japanese Prime Minister) Yukio Hatoyama is suffering from rapidly decreasing national support. If the government rejected the visa requests, the opposing party will surely accuse them of being timid to China," he said.
Visit by Dalai, Rebiya will impact Sino-Japanese ties
The step would "surely have a negative impact" on bilateral ties and could lead to the cancellation of the proposed visit of Jiabao, state run China daily said. Jiabao is likely to visit Japan next month.
The Dalai Lama is scheduled to come to Japan on June 18 to participate in a service at a Buddhist temple in Nagano, and deliver speeches in Ishikawa and Kanagawa prefectures.
Rebiya Kadeer, accused by Beijing as the mastermind behind riots in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in early July 2009, plans to attend symposiums in Tokyo and Osaka.
The two "separatists" will be visiting the country for the second time since the Democratic Party of Japan headed Yukio Hatoyama came to power.
Hatoyama is respected in China for his promise to move closer to China to improve the relations.
"This is definitely going to negatively impact Sino-Japanese relations," the daily quoted, Feng Zhaokui, former deputy head of the institute of Japan Studies at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as saying.
In October Beijing strongly condemned Tokyo's issuing of a visa to Kadeer, when the 59-year-old left her home in the US for Japan for the first time.
Japan is also the Dalai Lama's most visited Asian nation. It has received the 76-year-old a total of 15 times since 1987, and during the past several years the "Tibetan separatist" increased his visits, it said.
Feng said domestic pressure contributed to the visa granting process, while China's strong dissatisfaction has made Tokyo feel uncomfortable, shunning formal greetings with the two.
"(Japanese Prime Minister) Yukio Hatoyama is suffering from rapidly decreasing national support. If the government rejected the visa requests, the opposing party will surely accuse them of being timid to China," he said.
Visit by Dalai, Rebiya will impact Sino-Japanese ties
