Brighter side of Sino-Japan bilateral relations
According to a Xinhua news report, a group of over 200 Chinese high school students were welcomed Wednesday in Tokyo by Japanese government officials and friendship organizations, before they begin a week-long exchange tour in Japan. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic relations. Reality in international relations is always more complex and nuanced than one headline-grabbing issue in the mass media suggests.Sino-Japan youth concert held in Beijing
Chinese Culture Festival opens in Japan
posted by James Wong Wing-On at 12:49 AM
2 Comments:
Asia's two largest economies really do need to have friendlier relationships.
We musn't forget the past, neither should we become prisoners of the past. Some of the arguments between China and Japan sound like a bad cassette tape that keeps rewinding automatically.
China gets very upset with any perceived attempt by Japan to rewrite its WWII history.
And Japan views China's growing military strength with suspicion, and will cause Japan to draw closer to the Americans on defense policy. A lot of people don't realise that Japan has quietly build up a powerful military, especially its navy and air force. All the Japanese technology you see around - they function very well inside weapons systems, too.
It's not China alone that distrust the Japanese rightwing politicians but also the Koreas and many people in the Asia-Pacific region. That is why even in Australia, there are still many who view Japan suspiciously because of the barbarity (including cannibalism in Papua New Guinea) of its soldiers who were former friends during the Anglo-Japanese Treaty period from 1902 to 1922.
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