CHINA-JAPAN TALKS FRIENDLY, BUT NOT YET PRODUCTIVE
Martin Fackler
International Herald Tribune, May 7, 2008
The leaders of China and Japan pledged Wednesday to make their nations partners instead of rivals, as President Hu Jintao began a good-will mission to Japan aimed at improving often tense relations between the two Asian powers.
The visit, the first by a Chinese leader here in a decade, is expected to yield few if any concrete diplomatic breakthroughs. But both sides called the trip itself a sign of progress amid hopes that its friendly symbolism, which includes pandas and Ping-Pong, will help ease Japanese insecurities about China's rising economic and military might.
There are also hopes here that the visit will mark a thaw in the nations' often frosty political relations, which have failed to keep pace with the increasingly close trade and investment ties between Asia's two largest economies.
(...) [artículo aquí]
Martin Fackler
International Herald Tribune, May 7, 2008
The leaders of China and Japan pledged Wednesday to make their nations partners instead of rivals, as President Hu Jintao began a good-will mission to Japan aimed at improving often tense relations between the two Asian powers.
The visit, the first by a Chinese leader here in a decade, is expected to yield few if any concrete diplomatic breakthroughs. But both sides called the trip itself a sign of progress amid hopes that its friendly symbolism, which includes pandas and Ping-Pong, will help ease Japanese insecurities about China's rising economic and military might.
There are also hopes here that the visit will mark a thaw in the nations' often frosty political relations, which have failed to keep pace with the increasingly close trade and investment ties between Asia's two largest economies.
(...) [artículo aquí]
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