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- Wang Lijun sentenced to 15 years in prison
- The things Chinese families own
- Culture debate gets heated as Starbucks opens near temple
- Police seek 20 violent protesters
- Chinese flag raised on nation's first aircraft carrier
- Isles row ruins plan for a diplomatic celebration
- Rescue bids for 17 miners
- 10 detained in connection with sleeper bus inferno
- Rice recipe for Tibetans to cure bone pain
- Bo scandal policeman Wang jailed
- Top Chinese official makes landmark Afghan visit
- Toyota Resumes China Operations After Protests
- Have You Heard…
- Noda Warns China on Islands Dispute
- Social entrepreneurship takes off in China
- Deals boost Chinese-Afghan ties
- Defenses down as Pentagon chief gets rare visit to naval base
- US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had a rare first- hand look at a Chinese naval base yesterday.
- China postpones Sino-Japan tie-marking ceremony
- China puts off Japan ties event
| Wang Lijun sentenced to 15 years in prison Posted: 23 Sep 2012 06:28 PM PDT A Chinese court sentenced Wang Lijun to 15 years in prison for bending the law for selfish ends, defection, abuse of power and bribe-taking this morning. |
| The things Chinese families own Posted: 23 Sep 2012 04:27 PM PDT The things Chinese families own - all in a row |
| Culture debate gets heated as Starbucks opens near temple Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:45 AM PDT A COFFEE shop near one of Buddhism's most famous temples in China has sparked a heated debate about a clash of cultures. Starbucks' newly opened outlet close to Hangzhou's Lingyin Temple, has been called a second "cultural invasion," with critics saying the US chain's commercial style will spoil the serenity that an oriental Buddhism temple should embrace. Supporters, however, said they welcomed the outlet as a place for tourists to enjoy a drink after visiting the temple. Talk of an "invasion" was misplaced, they said, as the outlet was not inside the temple but on a nearby commercial street where a KFC restaurant and a shopping mall had been open for more than six months. The incident follows calls in 2009 to stop the first "cultural invasion" when the Seattle-based coffee chain had to move its outlet out of Beijing's Forbidden City seven years after it opened. Critics had urged the closure of the outlet which they said was a "humiliation" for a culture exemplified by the ancient buildings. On Friday, Starbucks announced on its official Weibo microblog that its Lingyin Temple branch would be opening the next day. Critics were quick to respond. "Must the ancient Chinese culture give way to the Western and commercial atmosphere? Starbucks should try open branch in London's Big Ben," said Zhixiang. "So today we can allow having a Western coffee shop near the Buddhism temple, then why can't we have a massage house or a sex toy shop nearby tomorrow?" was another microblog comment. "Several years ago Starbucks was driven out of the imperial palace, and now it had to turn to monks," another mocked. But supporters fought back, with many of them saying that it was not the coffee shop that had affected the temple's atmosphere as the commercial street with Western restaurants and shopping malls had been there for half a year. "Why do we have to keep pretending to ignore the fact that the Lingyin Temple area have already fallen into pure commercial atmosphere when the local government started to set up the small businesses?" asked Deng Haijian. Deng and some other posters said they were calling on local governments to make a start to protecting Chinese culture at major scenic spots by wiping out all small enterprises, both Chinese and foreign shops. |
| Police seek 20 violent protesters Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:36 AM PDT THE images of 20 people suspected of damaging property and fighting with police officers during a recent anti-Japan protest in southern Shenzhen City have been published online. Police used pepper spray, tear gas and water cannon to break up the demonstration on September 16 when thousands of people occupied a crowded street and some attacked a Japanese department store, grabbed police shields and knocked off officers' helmets. At least one policeman was hit with a flowerpot. After checking the images recorded by surveillance cameras, Shenzhen police have now put online pictures of 20 people they want to interview. They are urging the suspects to come forward as soon as possible and urged the public to call officers if they had any information about their identities or whereabouts. Police have conclusive evidence from the video footage and hope the suspects will turn themselves in, police said. Anyone with information about the suspects could be eligible for a reward. Apart from the 20 suspects being sought, Shenzhen police have detained seven violent protesters, mostly poorly educated migrant workers in their twenties, police said. Some had called each other to take part in the street protest and some were incited by others to damage property and attack the police, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported. A police officer told the newspaper that with their "blind" patriotism or excessive enthusiasm, the young people could be easily swayed into behaving much too aggressively. Tensions mounted after Japan announced earlier this month it had completed a planned "purchase" of the Diaoyu Islands, triggering mass protests, with tens of thousands of anti-Japanese protesters taking to the streets in cities across China. |
| Chinese flag raised on nation's first aircraft carrier Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:36 AM PDT CHINA'S first aircraft carrier held a flag-raising ceremony yesterday, amid rising tensions over the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. The ceremony on the 300-meter ship, the former Soviet carrier Varyag now to be the Liaoning after the northeast province where it was refitted, took place in the province's port of Dalian. During the ceremony, the aircraft carrier raised the Chinese national flag on its mast, the People's Liberation Army flag on its bow and the PLA Navy's colors on its stern. The aircraft carrier has undergone numerous sea trials since August 2011. Construction of the Varyag ended with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. China bought the carrier's immense armored hull - with no engine, electrics or propeller - from Ukraine in 1998 and began to refit the vessel in Dalian in 2002. |
| Isles row ruins plan for a diplomatic celebration Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:33 AM PDT China has postponed a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties with Japan, due to the ongoing dispute over the Diaoyu Islands. "Due to the current situation, the Chinese side has decided that the reception commemorating the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations will be postponed until an appropriate time," an official from the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries said yesterday. The ceremony was due to take place on Thursday. Tensions escalated dramatically after the Japanese government "bought" three of the islands from so-called private owners. On Friday, China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said that many of the ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of Sino-Japanese diplomatic ties had been affected by the row. "Many plans have been ruined due to the mistaken actions of the Japanese side (and) many of the planned commemoration events have been impacted," Hong said. "This is something that we did not hope to see. The responsibility lies entirely with the Japanese side," he said. In Tokyo, a senior adviser to Japan's ruling party said yesterday that Japan should shelve the dispute over the Diaoyu Islands in accordance with a consensus with the Chinese side. Hirohisa Fujii, 80, former finance minister and chief adviser to the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, said in an interview with public broadcaster NHK that historical consensus and facts should be honored. In terms of the Diaoyu issue, "we should respect the proposal of 'shelving disputes' made by the late Chinese leaders Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping," he said. He said young people in Japan should learn more about history and acknowledge basic facts, such as that Japan had indeed colonized South Korea and launched an aggressive war against China in the past. Meanwhile, the State Oceanic Administration said yesterday that China will promote the use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, to strengthen its marine surveillance. The SOA, which is stepping up efforts to enhance its surveillance of islands including the Diaoyu and Huangyan Island, said the use of drones in marine surveillance was flexible, low-cost and efficient. |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT RESCUE efforts are under way at two coal mines in northeast China where a total of 17 people are trapped underground. Fire broke out yesterday at the Longshan mine in Heilongjiang Province, trapping 11 miners. There were 13 men working in the mine at the time but two were lifted to safety. The accident happened at around 8am at the mine in Youyi County of Shuangyashan City, the county government said in a statement. It said that the county's coal management bureau had ordered the mine to suspend production on September 3, a day after its license had expired but work had continued illegally. On Saturday, flooding at the Jiayi mine in the same province's Jidong County trapped six miners. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 10 detained in connection with sleeper bus inferno Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT TEN people have been detained in connection with a collision that killed 36 people in northwestern Shaanxi Province on August 26, police said. The accident happened at around 2am in Yan'an City when a tanker loaded with methanol from Henan Province left a service area on the Baotou-Maoming Expressway and was hit by a double-decker sleeper bus. The highly flammable liquid leaked and set off a huge explosion. The bus was full at the time and only three out of the 39 people on board survived. Drivers and passengers in the tanker escaped injury. Three drivers were found guilty of breaking traffic laws and causing the accident. The bus driver, who died in the accident, was driving when he should have been resting and the two tanker drivers, surnamed Shan, 52, and Zhang, 43, are being held by police for violations related to the transport of dangerous materials, according to Xinhua news agency. A preliminary investigation showed that the tanker illegally entered the highway and was driving too slowly, resulting in the collision. Police have also detained eight staffers of the bus company from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. China ordered sweeping inspections into the safety of long-distance buses following the crash. Several provinces have banned the non-stop overnight operation of long-distance buses. The crash put Yang Dacai, head of the Shaanxi Work Safety Bureau at the center of a media storm after he was seen smiling at the scene. An online campaign exposed his penchant for luxury watches and eyeglasses and he was stripped of his post after an investigation was launched. |
| Rice recipe for Tibetans to cure bone pain Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT
A resident of Banbar County in Tibet Autonomous Region, Nyima Tsering began receiving rice in 2003 as part of a project to fight Kashin-Beck disease (KBD), a chronic bone disease rampant in the area. "None of my three children has been diagnosed with KBD, while other patients in my family said their joint pain has been alleviated," he said. The county where Nyima Tsering lives has been hit the worst by disability-causing KBD, but local officials said rice helps to control the disease. By encouraging residents to replace barley with rice as a staple food, authorities have cut the number of new KBD cases reported in Banbar since 2000. KBD mainly affects children between the ages of 7 and 12, causing joint deformation, pain and, in serious cases, disability. A 1999 survey indicated that half of the population of some villages in Banbar had been affected. "The disease has been a major cause of poverty here, as many farmers are unable to work after developing KBD symptoms," said Shilok, deputy head of the regional health department. Although its exact cause has yet to be determined, experts suspect large amounts of mycotoxin in barley, selenium deficiencies and drinking water contamination may be behind its spread. A government-funded project launched in 2000 has seen hundreds of tons of free rice delivered to families with KBD patients and local schools every year. "Although rice is new to many Tibetan residents, they have cheerfully welcomed the government's offer, as it complements the meager local barley harvest," said Deng Youmin, vice Party secretary in Banbar. Since local soil and water quality is suspected to have contributed to the KBD breakout, officials have relocated some villages and improved water supplies in others, although rice has proven to be the most cost-effective solution for villages that cannot afford resettlement. The project has seen the number of patients suffering from KBD drop to less than 13 percent of the population in Banbar, Deng said, citing a March survey. Zhou Lingwang, an official at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the experiment in Banbar "offered precious insights for other KBD-affected Tibetan areas." China has pledged to eliminate KBD before 2015. |
| Bo scandal policeman Wang jailed Posted: 23 Sep 2012 08:53 PM PDT Wang Lijun, the ex-police chief at the heart of the scandal that felled top Chinese politician Bo Xilai, is jailed for 15 years, state media reports. |
| Top Chinese official makes landmark Afghan visit Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:31 AM PDT  Source: AFP | Photo: Xinhua KABUL — China's top security official has made the first high-level trip to Afghanistan by a senior Chinese leader in nearly half a century, meeting President Hamid Karzai in Kabul. Karzai's office said Zhou came to the war-battered nation to discuss the implementation of a strategic cooperation agreement that Karzai signed with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in June. During a meeting with Zhou in his Kabul palace, Karzai said "China is a good and honest friend of Afghanistan," his office said in a statement. Beijing has stepped up diplomacy with Afghanistan in recent months as the 2014 deadline for the withdrawal of US and NATO troops approaches. China, which shares a 76-kilometre (47-mile) border with Afghanistan's far northeast, has already secured major oil and copper mining concessions in Afghanistan, which is believed to have more than $1 trillion worth of minerals. Karzai urged China to further invest in his poverty-stricken nation's underground treasures, the palace statement said. The scramble for influence in Afghanistan is expected to intensify in the run-up to 2014, with its central position in a volatile region having shaped its history for centuries. Xinhua provided few details about the visit, other than quoting Zhou as saying: "It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership… conducive to regional peace, stability and development." The visit was not previously announced due to security concerns. Late president Liu Shaoqi, the last senior Chinese official to visit Afghanistan, visited in 1966, Xinhua said. Zhou, ranked ninth in China's ruling Communist Party hierarchy, is China's top security official and oversees a crackdown on religious extremism, terrorism and separatism in his nation's Muslim-populated Xinjiang region, which borders Central Asia and Afghanistan. Zhou's appearance in Kabul comes after Karzai pledged to work with China to fight terrorism and extremism in the region during a visit to Beijing in June, where he attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting. The grouping, which is led by China and Russia and was set up to counterbalance US and NATO influence, granted Afghanistan observer status at the meeting. |
| Toyota Resumes China Operations After Protests Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:35 AM PDT  Source: Bloomberg News By Yuki Yamaguchi and Shunichi Ozasa | Photo: AFP Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) and Aeon Co. (8267), Japan's largest auto and retail companies, are resuming operations in China after protests over a territorial dispute hurt sales and disrupted production for Japanese businesses. Demonstrators protesting Japan's purchase of islands claimed by both countries last week ransacked stores and auto showrooms, forcing firms from Fast Retailing Co. (9983), a seller of Uniqlo apparel, to Honda Motor Co. (7267) to shutter Chinese outlets and factories. Fast Retailing expects China sales for last week to be about 20 percent less than usual even as it plans to reopen all outlets by today, spokesman Keiji Furukawa said. "Sept. 18 was the worst when we closed 60 stores temporarily," Furukawa said. "The sales on that day were one third of what we would have gained." Honda has been able to reopen its factories in China, although it hasn't fully recovered from the closures, President Takanobu Ito said on Sept. 21. Island Fight Japanese auto sales in China will be hurt next month as a result of the tensions, Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota and chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, said in a briefing in Tokyo last week. Japan's three biggest carmakers — Toyota, Nissan Motor Co. (7201) and Honda — had reported attacks on their dealerships in the eastern port city of Qingdao and halted production at Chinese plants. Companies started to resume operations after demonstrations eased at the end of last week. The dispute between Asia's two largest economies flared up earlier this month after Japan's government said it would buy the islands, known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japanese, from their private Japanese owner. China claims that it's owned the islands for centuries, while Japan argues it took administrative control of them in 1895, lost its claim after World War II and had the islands returned to it in 1972. The diplomatic crisis, the worst between the two countries since 2005, prompted street protests in Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese cities. Japanese companies will probably be able to recover lost production and the unrest will have a limited impact in the short term, although the longer-term effect is "difficult to determine," Moody's Investors Service said in a report. Police Barricades The ratings firm said the automobile industry is "better- positioned" to sustain short-term declines in sales in China amid strong global vehicle sales. The consumer electronics industry is more vulnerable as it undergoes restructuring, it said. Canon Inc. (7751) halted operations at its factory in Zhuhai, Guangdong province on the afternoon of Sept. 21, after a temporary resumption the previous day, according to spokesman Hirotomo Fujimori. The company's factory in Zhongshan, Guangdong, also halted work amid employee concerns over anti-Japan protests, he said. Panasonic Corp.'s (6752) Suzhou factory is back to normal, while output partially resumed at another one in Qingdao on Sept. 21. A Zhuhai factory has stopped operations as about 10 Chinese employees protested, spokesman Atsushi Hinoki said. Seven & I Holdings Co. (3382), the owner of the 7-Eleven convenience store brand, has reopened all shops that it had closed in China. "There was almost no damage to our stores because there were barricades by armed police," spokesman Hirotake Henmi, said by phone. Trade Relations The diplomatic spat endangers trade relations between Asia's largest economies and comes as second-quarter economic growth in China moderated to the slowest pace in three years. Japanese companies have been investing in China despite that slowdown. Foreign direct investment by companies from Japan surged 19.1 percent from a year earlier to $4.73 billion in the first seven months of 2012, according to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. About 700 people marched in central Tokyo on Sept. 22 to protest China's claim to the rocky islands and the presence of Chinese surveillance ships in nearby waters, the Sankei newspaper reported on its website, citing police estimates. Airlines Reduce Flights China "strongly" opposes the landing of Japanese citizens on the disputed islands, the Foreign Ministry said on Sept. 22. Japanese nationals visited the islands with the excuse of preventing a landing by Taiwanese activists, the ministry's spokesman, Hong Lei, said in a statement. Japan Airlines Co. (9201) said last week it will reduce services to Beijing and Shanghai starting Oct. 10 until Oct. 27. All Nippon Airways Co. (9202) will fly smaller planes to Beijing from Oct. 17 until Oct. 31. China Southern Airlines Co. (1055) and other Chinese carriers have also pared services to Japan amid a boycott that prompted the cancellation of planned trips to Japan by Chinese holidaymakers, according to Citigroup Inc. Cancellation rates for vacations in Japan may increase further ahead of weeklong Chinese holidays starting Oct. 1, Citigroup analysts Vivian Tao and Rigan Wong wrote in a note last week. |
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| Noda Warns China on Islands Dispute Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:41 AM PDT  Source: Wall Street Journal By Toko Sekiguchi and George Nishiyama TOKYO—Japan's prime minister warned China that its inflammatory reaction to a territorial dispute—from violent protests to apparent informal trade sanctions—could further weaken the Asian giant's already-fragile economy by scaring away foreign investors. The comments showed the risks that the tense diplomatic standoff could broaden into a damaging commercial tit-for-tat between the world's second and third largest economies. "Recent delays in customs and visa issuance are of concern," Mr. Noda continued, referring to reports that Japanese companies were now facing a form of economic harassment, as he offered his most detailed comments to date on the business implications of the row. "Damaging our ties over such things would be bad for not just the two countries' economies, but for the global economy," he added. Japan is simultaneously ensnared in an increasingly bitter tiff with another neighbor, South Korea, both over a separate territorial argument, as well as a debate over whether Japan has made adequate amends for its World War II aggression. Mr. Noda made clear in the interview that his government had no intention of making the concessions Seoul has demanded as necessary for repairing diplomatic ties frayed in recent months, indicating an extended period of friction there as well. Asked if he would consider providing new compensation for the so-called comfort women who served as sex slaves for the Japanese soldiers, Mr. Noda said firmly: "The matter is closed." He said South Korean criticism that Japan's previous offerings were insufficient "hurt the feelings of conscientious Japanese and it is a pity." Mr. Noda conducted the interview in advance of a visit to the United Nations General Assembly session starting Monday, where he plans to give a speech highlighting the importance of "the rule of law" in international dispute settlement. While aides said that is intended as an allusion to Japan's tiffs with its neighbors, Mr. Noda said he wouldn't single out any countries by name: "I don't think it's appropriate for a leader to go on in length and in detail about individual issues." Indeed, at the same time that Japan appears to be taking a firm line in its regional disputes, officials are also looking for ways to dial down the heat, particularly with China. Illustrating his balancing act, Mr. Noda held out hope that the recent curbing of formal diplomatic contacts would be eased, and that the foreign ministers of the Asian giants would meet in New York as a step toward diffusing the tensions over the contested islets in the East China Sea. "If there is a chance, we should hold such a meeting," he said. But Beijing indicated Sunday that it wasn't ready to move on, with the official Xinhua news agency reporting that the Chinese government had decided to cancel various ceremonies scheduled for later this week related to the 40th anniversary of normalization of postwar diplomatic ties between the two nations. The latest flare-up with China followed the Japanese government's purchase from private Japanese owners earlier this month of the islands controlled by Japan but also claimed by China. Japan's nationalization of the islands—known as the Senkaku in Japan, Diaoyu in China—set off anti-Japanese demonstrations in over 100 cities in China, some violent, leaving a trail of burned-down factories, looted stores and vandalized consulates. The head of a Japanese insurers' industry body has said insurance payments to Japanese companies damaged by the protests could total up to tens of billions of yen. Beijing also sent paramilitary patrol boats under its various agencies to waters near the islands, setting off a cat-and-mouse chase with the Japanese Coast Guard that has continued for over a week. Japanese opposition lawmakers have called for beefing up the defenses around the islands. But Mr. Noda said he saw no need to bring in the Japanese navy, and shrugged off the possibility of a military conflict. "It's not good to talk about pessimistic scenarios," the 55-year-old leader said. Mr. Noda also gave Chinese officials some credit for trying to calm things down, saying "the government itself is calling for restraint, and I believe it is trying to diffuse such behavior and actions," he said, referring to the protests. "However, I don't think they've been entirely successful yet," he added. And he noted that while the violence had died down, he cited the new trade delays as evidence that prospects remain for spreading economic fallout. In recent days, Japanese companies have reported customs-clearing delays, raising concerns that China was now retaliating economically, just as it did after a similar territorial spat in 2010 led to a curb on the export to Japan of rare-earth minerals vital for the production of some of Japan's leading products such as hybrid cars. Mr. Noda implied that other countries would conclude they are vulnerable to same kind of harassment facing the Japanese—and possibly curb investments—making a point of citing the incident in Beijing on Tuesday where anti-Japanese protesters briefly surrounded the American ambassador's car, causing minor damage. "Even the U.S. embassy and its official car came under attack," Mr. Noda said. Mr. Noda's remarks Saturday followed statements by Japanese business leaders that they may begin to rethink their ties to their giant neighbor. Tokyo has considerable economic clout: Japan has become a major contributor to China's growth, just as China has become economically vital to Japan. Japanese companies injected $12 billion in foreign direct investment into China last year, according to Japanese government statistics. Japan is China's second largest trading partner, while China is Japan's largest. While more understated than the rhetoric coming out of China, Mr. Noda's comments over the weekend echoed remarks by Chinese government officials and editorials suggesting that tensions could spill into business ties. The China Daily, for example, carried a column titled "Consider Sanctions on Japan." "Japan's economy will suffer severely if China were to impose sanctions on it. China's loss would be relatively less," said the piece written by an analyst at a think tank affiliated with China's Ministry of Commerce. In addition to the isles dispute with China, Japan faces another with South Korea, which has evolved into an issue over Japan's wartime compensation. The South Korean foreign minister is widely expected to raise demands for new "comfort women" compensation in his U.N. speech. The long-simmering issue has heated up over the past year, after the South Korean constitutional court ruled that the country's leaders had violated the law by failing to negotiate a new compensation package with Japan. That put new pressure on South Korea's leaders, and Seoul has since twice asked Tokyo to hold consultations, but the requests were turned down. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak cited the lack of progress on the issue as a reason for the recent flare-up in their bilateral territorial rivalry over a group of tiny islets known as the Liancourt Rocks, including his surprise August visit to the area called Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan. After that, South Korea's National Assembly passed a resolution demanding more formal apologies and compensation from the Japanese government over the comfort women issue. In contrast to his remarks about China, which appeared to leave the door open for discussions, Mr. Noda was resolute Saturday in refusing Seoul's demand for government compensation, saying that South Korea agreed to forfeit claims to wartime compensation when the two nations normalized ties in 1965. "In the long negotiation process, we have completely and legally resolved the matter of compensation," Mr. Noda said. He said the government went out of its way to jointly set up a fund in 1995 with private donations to provide the former comfort women with compensation. South Korea has said the fund should come directly from Japan's government. Mr. Noda said Korea should first revise its assessment of the fund that Japan has already offered before the two sides can look into alternatives. Facing some criticism at home that Japan hasn't done enough to explain globally its side of its disputes with South Korea, Mr. Noda said: "We've been conducting backstage negotiations on the matter. We need to advertise this fact to the international community." |
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| China postpones Sino-Japan tie-marking ceremony Posted: 23 Sep 2012 02:39 AM PDT CHINA announced today it was adjusting the date to hold the reception to mark the 40th anniversary of the normalization of China-Japan relations, saying the reception would be held at an appropriate time. |
| China puts off Japan ties event Posted: 23 Sep 2012 05:50 AM PDT A ceremony to mark 40 years of diplomatic ties with Japan is cancelled by China as the two countries' dispute over an island chain continues. |
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