Wen: China-Japan ties at crucial stage

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Wen: China-Japan ties at crucial stage

Xinhua, February 8, 2010


Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday that China-Japan ties are at a crucial stage, urging the two countries to enhance mutual trust and step up dialogue and cooperation in all spheres.

"In the first decade of this century, China and Japan have taken an important step towards the goal of a strategic and mutually beneficial relationship after undergoing twists and turns," said Wen in his congratulatory letter to a meeting on China-Japan friendship.

The first meeting of the fifth 21st Century Committee for China-Japan Friendship, an advisory body for the two governments, opened in Beijing on Sunday to discuss various dimensions of China-Japan relations and provide policy suggestions to the two governments.

The committee, with Tang Jiaxuan, a former state councilor, and Taizo Nishimuro, Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) president, as chairs of the two sides, is holding a three-day meeting.

"At the crucial stage of bilateral relations, I hope the members from both sides will work closely and come up with valuable suggestions to contribute to the long-term friendship and common prosperity," Wen said.

The relations between China and Japan, two important neighboring countries in Asia, have seen stable development since Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama took office last September.

Wen said the cooperation between China and Japan will "not only benefit both countries and Asia at large, but also exert positive and profound impact on world political and economic structure" in the face of complex international situation and many grave challenges.

Hatoyama in his congratulatory letter also urged the two countries to beef up understanding and cooperation to build comprehensively their strategic and reciprocal relations.

In his keynote speech at the meeting, Tang Jiaxuan made four proposals on advancing bilateral ties.

Tang proposed that the two countries continue to foster strategic mutual trust, work on the economic relations by highlighting cooperation in environmental protection, low-carbon economy and high-tech, boost cultural exchanges and enhance coordination in international and regional affairs.

He said China-Japan relations still face some problems and challenges that can't be neglected, noting that their political mutual-trust needs to be promoted, their national feelings towards each other need to be improved and some sensitive issues need to be properly handled.

Taizo Nishimuro also made proposals including enhancing political mutual trust, promoting trade liberalization, encouraging cultural exchanges and promoting Asian regional cooperation and world peace.

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

This seemingly simple article has deep implications for the entire world, including Pakistan.

Keep in mind the recent attacks against Japanese auto giant Toyota (which became the largest auto company in the USA and the world!!!). A sleezy zionist crypto game of DEFAMING the competitor to "revive" junk US autos.

That's the game that is being played in international politics and big business!

Hope the Japanese wake up after being constantly discriminated and exploited by white racists and realize their BOND with their Asian brothers and sisters.

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

So the White Zionists want to hurt Chinese as well (as Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Pakistanis, Iranians, etc). Two can play at this game....



U.S., China swap more tariffs

Global Times, February 8, 2010

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China and the United States cranked up the tension Friday as they exchanged new tariffs, underscoring the increasing sensitivity and fragility of the world's most significant bilateral relations, which have been strained in recent weeks.

China's ministry of commerce announced duties on imports of US chicken products Beijing believes are sold at unfairly low prices. In its preliminary ruling, the ministry asked importers of US chicken parts in China to pay deposits at customs – of up to 105.4 percent – starting Saturday, according to an online statement.

"Investigations showed that the US producers had dumped chicken products on the Chinese market, causing substantial damage to China's domestic industry," the ministry said.

Later Friday, the US unveiled its countermeasure by slapping initial anti-dumping duties of up to 231.4 percent on gift boxes and ribbons from China that it said were unfairly priced, Reuters reported, adding that the US slapped much lower duties of up to 4.54 percent on Taiwan.

China formally launched anti-subsidy investigations into US chicken products and auto parts in late September. That move came as the US imposed stiff tariffs on imported Chinese tires, adding to a growing list of Chinese exports that face US duties, including electric blankets and steel tubes.

As much as $7 billion worth of Chinese exports last year were made subject to Washington's trade protectionist measures, Yao Jian, a spokesman with China's ministry of commerce, said in January, with the steel and tire industries said to be among the most affected.

A government-linked think tank in China said over the weekend that foreign trade is to observe a "marked" recovery as overseas demand rises due to the global economic recovery.

Foreign trade will see a 17.6 percent year-on-year growth, with exports up 16.6 percent and imports up 18.9 percent, the Center for Forecasting Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said in a report issued Saturday.

China accounted for 19 percent of US imports in the first half of 2009, up from 16 percent in 2008, according to US Census Bureau figures, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The US trade deficit with China in the first 11 months of last year, however, was $209 billion, a 16 percent drop from a year earlier, which was $248 billion, according to statistics from the US Census Bureau.

US President Barack Obama made an ambitious pledge to double US exports over the next five years in his recent State story of the Union address.

Goldman Sachs estimates that such a scenario might require a 4.5 percent average annual global GDP growth accompanied by a 30 percent US dollar depreciation, Reuters said Friday in a commentary.

The US has been a complainant in 93 out of the 400 or so disputes registered with the World Trade Organization in its 15-year history, the most of any nation, Reuters said Friday. Through the end of 2009, only India had more active antidumping and countervailing-duty measures than the US, it said.

Tensions seem to have mounted between Beijing and Washington due to wrangling over issues including the value of the yuan, US arms sales to Taiwan and a scheduled meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama, who is viewed by Beijing as a Tibetan separatist.

The Obama administration drew Beijing's ire last week by threatening a "much tougher" enforcement of existing trade rules.

The US and China were also in dispute over the latter's Internet policy, after Google threatened to pull out of the country, accusing Beijing of backing official cyber attacks on the e-mail accounts of Chinese activists.

Wang Fan, an international affairs expert with the China Foreign Affairs University, said Sino-US relations are one of the most important bilateral relations in the world.

"The relation is so complicated that new conflicts continue to emerge while the existing ones are yet to be solved," Wang said.

However, with their expanding common ground, the two countries wouldn't fall into a "cold war," Wang said.

"Relationship between China and the US will always be somewhere between perfect and the worst. That is to say not as good as in the so-called scenario of the Group of 2, nor as bad as any sort of new cold war," Wang said.

Niu Xinchun, a researcher at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, said China and the US should avoid a showdown despite the non-stop frictions.

"Conflicts will be accompanied by cooperation," Niu said. "The Obama administration would balance its attempts to contain China and its willingness to cooperate with it."

At the Munich Security Conference Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said a more developed China is an opportunity rather than a threat to the world.

"The argument that a strong nation is bound to seek hegemony finds no supporting case in China's history and goes against the will of the Chinese people," he said.

The WSJ called "a cheap currency, regulated interest rates and low energy prices" part of China's strategy, and that it is "stoking discontent in fellow developing countries, not just in Western capitals."

The export resurgence has reached into new markets, the WSJ said. A majority of China's exports now go to other developing countries, with exports to India, Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico growing by 30 to 50 percent in recent months, the WSJ reported, citing figures from China International Capital Corp.

 

[DaRk WaVe]

Japanese are slowly & gradually arming them selves, may be US sees Japan as a potential counter to growing Chinese influence

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Having had the chance to live in Japan due to exchange program I was able to understand the political - view that exist between Japan and China

The issue is very deep and serious from Chinese point of view, the Japanese have maintained a passive military stance but have now
developed a certain level of airforce and army as a DEFENSIVE unit

The main point of conflict remains that Japanese have certain shrines (War dead) which houses war criminals of ww2 , chinese do not appreciate that Japanese visit these shrines to pay respect.

Japanese (some) insist all souls of war must be thanks for participating in a war that probbly saved japan from being a US colony.

So that is the major disagreement

Can China/Japan coexist

Well if you do the research Japan is occupied from Chinese decendents from centuries , tribes that are thought to have migrate to mainland Japan many centuries ago ...

The Japanese after WW2 became dependent on USA for its defence after ww2, and USA has routinely exploited Japanese market for its trade.

There is always resentment in Japan against the US permenent bases in the country , and ocassionally people whole rallies to get rid of the US bases, but since North Korea is technically at war with Japan
Due to hostage crisis (Japanese ppl abduction case) the Japanese need US presence , but now they are moving to build their own army and ability to protect themselves.

a) They have nuclear plants
b) They have ability to make F15
c) They have all avionics knowledge
d) They have decent navy

Would there be cooperation between Japan/China remains to be seen.

Japan is a passive country the people there do not appreciate war anymore - infact they also protested when Japan decided to send in troops to help illegal war on Afghanistan/Iraq

I predict that Japan will distance itself from USA, and this current auto crisis is an attempt to revive US auto sector , and punish Japan for its stance on oil currency and refusal to let its land used for military operatios

For now Japan - is in tough spot it does not wants war but USA insists that maintains a US presence on its soil


The world right now is going thru a similar process it went thru after WW1 - when people imposed sanctions on each other , it was followed by the great depression period when food/bread and jobs were few, it was followed by global WW2 , where most of the unemployed by armies and there was a mass reduction in world populations , the resulting devistations obviously moved the economy as nations had to get rebuild its a sad fact of reality so the current sanctions/terrifs are according to similar pattern that happened in ww1-ww2 era...sadly ...