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Japanese PM's remark on shrine visit leads to long-term cold relations with China: Kyodo

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's latest remark made in the Diet trying to justify his visit to Yasukuni Shrine will only harden the Chinese government's attitude toward Japan, said a commentary of Kyodo News Service on March 8, and this will make a long-term cold Japan-China relationship unavoidable.


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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's latest remark made in the Diet trying to justify his visit to Yasukuni Shrine will only harden the Chinese government's attitude toward Japan, said a commentary of Kyodo News Service on March 8, and this will make a long-term cold Japan-China relationship unavoidable.

The question of shrine visit has affected not only the political ties between the two countries, but also the economic field, the article said, such as Japan's competitive bidding for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway project. Japan expressed the hope that China would use its Shinkansen (New Trunk Line) technology.

Shortly after taking office in March last year, Chinese leader Hu Jintao took an attitude of attaching importance to Sino-Japan relations, hoping the shrine visit, which had led to suspension of visits between Chinese and Japanese leaders, would not affect the economic filed. But Koizumi's fourth shrine visit on the New Year Day greatly disappointed China. Thereafter, commenting on Junichiro Koizumi's remark in the Diet, the Chinese side said the remark "trampled on China's efforts made to improve Sino-Japan relations".

Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing expressed his view on Sino-Japan relations at a press conference held on March 6, listing concrete figures to illustrate expanded trade and personnel exchanges. The aforesaid commentary noted that although Li viewed Sino-Japan relations as "good as a whole", he made just and stern criticisms of Koizumi's shrine visit.

Liu Hongcai, deputy head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, once talked in February with Japanese Komei Party Representative Kanzaki Takenori, the article pointed out in conclusion. Liu said due to the question of shrine visit, the Chinese side could hardly support Japan in the railway project mentioned above. A pessimistic concept resulting therefrom has spread out among related personages of Japan's railway industry.

By People's Daily Online


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