CHINA / National
China, Japan talk sees no breakthrough
(AP)
Updated: 2006-09-24 09:40
TOKYO - Japan and China remained deadlocked Saturday on a range of issues
including resuming leadership summits under Japan's premier-in-waiting,
Shinzo Abe, but both sides agreed to keep talking, a Japanese official
said.
Chinese Executive Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo (R) is welcomed by
his Japanese counterpart Shotaro Yachi (L) prior to their meeting at the
Foreign Ministry's Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo. Japan and China began
vice-ministerial level talks just a few days ahead of Japan's new
administration, in a bid to seek ways to ease strained ties between the
two Asian powers.[AFP]
"There are many unresolved issues, and talks will continue," Japanese
Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi told reporters after meeting his
Chinese counterpart Dai Bingguo in Tokyo.
Chinese leaders have refused summits with outgoing premier Junichiro
Koizumi over his repeated visits to a war shrine linked to Japan's past
militarism, plunging bilateral relations to their lowest point in decades.
Saturday's talks were the first between the two sides since May. Yachi
said they discussed a range of issues concerning bilateral relations and
regional security, including how to share oil and gas resources in a
disputed section of the East China Sea.
He declined to give details, saying the two sides had agreed not to make
the specifics public. The talks will continue next week, he said.
Abe, who scored a landslide victory in ruling party elections on
Wednesday, is set to succeed Koizumi as prime minister next week.
Though known for his hawkish stance on foreign policy, news reports have
said Abe wants to arrange a summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao on
the sidelines of a regional conference in Vietnam in November.
Yachi refused to say whether he thought the Chinese will be open to such
talks.
On top of the war shrine issue, Tokyo and Beijing have recently squabbled
over the response to North Korea's missile tests in July, as well as
Japanese school textbooks that China says gloss over Japan's wartime
atrocities in Asia.
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