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Sino-Japanese meeting at G20 ruled out (2)

By Zhang Yunbi (China Daily) 08:34, August 28, 2013

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On Tuesday, Japan's Coast Guard said it will purchase more ships and recruit more personnel next year to deal with China's "growing presence" in waters off the Diaoyu Islands.

And recently, some political forces in Japan have even openly denied the outcomes of World War II and blatantly challenged the postwar international order. "Under such circumstances, how can we arrange a meeting between the two leaders?" Li said.

Liu Jiangyong, an expert on Japanese studies and deputy dean of the Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua University, said Japan has listed China as "a major target of its strategic deterrence".

"Japan is trying to justify its increasingly assertive military buildup" by playing up tensions over the islands, which has long worried its Asian neighbors, Liu said.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday during a visit to Seoul that Japan needs proper awareness about history.

He urged Japanese leaders to have "very deep introspection", with particular reference to Japan's plans to revise its pacifist Constitution.

Suga on Tuesday expressed displeasure over the remarks and inferred that the UN chief did not fully understand Japan's position.

President Xi will pay official visits to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan from Sept 3 to 13.

He is also scheduled to attend the 13th Meeting of the Council of Heads of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Sept 13 in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

A series of agreements will be signed in sectors such as oil and gas, transportation, telecommunications, investment and culture during Xi's first trip to Central Asia as president, said Vice-Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping.

Dong Manyuan, vice-president of the China Institute of International Studies, said the trip will serve as an "integral piece of the new Chinese leadership's diplomacy jigsaw" in cementing relationships with China's neighbors.

Xi will make a speech to outline China's Central Asia policy at Nazarbayev University, a leading university in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

The central Asia trip is the third round of overseas visits for Xi after he took office in March. Xi traveled to Russia and Africa in his first tour, and to Latin America and the US in the second round.

Developing countries account for a majority of Chinese leaders' destinations, which highlights China's diplomatic priorities, Dong said.