Vice-President Li Yuanchao made his diplomatic debut in his new role in a meeting with Japanese business leaders in Beijing yesterday. Li was the highest-level official to attend the three-day...
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Diaoyu Islands
The Diaoyu Islands are a group of uninhabited islands located roughly due east of mainland China, northeast of Taiwan, west of Okinawa Island, and north of the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands. They are currently controlled by Japan, which calls them Senkaku Islands. Both China and Taiwan claim sovereignty over the islands.
22 Mar 2013
A group of influential Japanese business leaders is due to meet Vice-President Li Yuanchao today in Beijing in an effort to improve soured relations between the two countries.
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22 Mar 2013
US and Japanese officers are discussing worst-case contingency plans for retaking the disputed Diaoyu Islands if China moves to seize them, US officials said. Japan's Nikkei newspaper first...
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21 Mar 2013
US and Japanese officers are discussing worst-case contingency plans for retaking disputed islands in the East China Sea if China moves to seize them, US officials said on Wednesday.
Japan’...
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19 Mar 2013
China's assertive response to the tug of war with Japan over the disputed Diaoyu Islands has strong domestic support. Nationalistic sentiments have been surging. Memories of Japanese atrocities...
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Diplomacy is a skilled art. To be good at their job, diplomats need years of experience in negotiation, political analysis and protocol. A balanced personality, intelligence, tolerance, open-...
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China’s Tingyi (Cayman Islands), a maker of drinks and instant noodles, said fourth-quarter profit slid 75 per cent as consumers shied away from its Japanese-style packaging and marketing amid a...
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Senior Chinese military officials have admitted for the first time that a frigate locked its radar on a Japanese destroyer during the two nations’ spat over disputed islands, Kyodo News agency...
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The announcement that Beijing plans to deploy surveying teams on the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, which China calls the Diaoyu chain, has been dismissed in Japan as little more than an...
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Japan on Wednesday called for stronger security ties with Southeast Asia as Tokyo looks to boost alliances at a time of growing territorial tensions with China.
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China will send a team at an "appropriate time" to survey islands at the heart of an increasingly heated dispute with Japan, an official said in Beijing's clearest statement yet that it intends to...
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