Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on September 1st that China-Japan relations had returned to a “normal track” and Beijing has also confirmed that he will visit China next month as part of the anniversary ceremonies.
Wang Yi, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister, attended China-ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Singapore on August 2. As the rotating chairman of ASEAN and coordinator of China-ASEAN relations, Foreign Minister of Singapore announced that China and ASEAN arrived at the single draft negotiating text of Code of Conduct (COC) on the same day. This is the first move towards substantive negotiations on the COC, and also a critical move and a milestone that lay foundation and provide essential safeguard for further talks. Δ? Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (First row, L3) attends the 25th ASEAN Regional Forum retreat held in Singapore on Aug 4, 2018.[Photo/ Xinhua] What is the single draft negotiating text of COC? The 14th Senior Officials’ Meeting on Implementation of Declaration on the Code of Conduct on the South China Sea (DOC), held last May, passed the framework of COC, indicating that negotiations had entered a new substantive stage. However, a series of difficulties and challenges exist in such stage, among which the foremost one is the drafting of the basic document. As Wang Yi depicted, the progress made in these negotiations can be compared to China and ASEAN building a new house together. In the past, eleven countries had 11 plans, but now, with China and ASEAN agreeing on a single draft […]
On July 4, Reuters reported that Japan would send its helicopter carrier “Kaga” to the South China Sea. The issue is still enraging China.
On May 8-11, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang paid an official visit to Japan at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
As the United States and China confront each other on trade, other countries are looking to take advantage.
US trade wars are nothing new. The United States has repeatedly initiated trade sanctions towards those it considers “disobedient countries” and Japan was one of them.
The book takes a different approach to inform the world of the full horror of the Nanjing Massacre.
The 13th Beijing-Tokyo Forum was held from Dec. 15-17 in Beijing. During the forum, participants from China and Japan held extensive discussions about building an open world economic order and maintaining peace in Asia.
In February 2014, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, designated December 13 as the “National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims.”
“Comfort women” were a group of women who were coerced by the Japanese army into working as sex slaves during WWⅡ.Of these, Chinese women made up half of the total number of 400,000. They were forced into comfort women centers and allocated to Japanese army?as military supplies.
Shinzo Abe, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), swept to victory and was re-elected as the 98th?Prime Minister of Japan. Some see this victory as formal recognition that he is embarking on a period of “ultra-long term rule”, which means that he no longer has to concern himself with electoral politics.
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