Le Yucheng (first from right), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of China (first from right), met with Japanese Foreign Minister Kono Kono (first from left) in Tokyo last week.(China News Agency)
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China and Japan held a new round of China -Japan strategic dialogue that lasted seven years last Saturday, which is considered another example of the recovery of relations between the two countries.
According to the Chinese official news agency Xinhua News Agency, Le Yucheng, deputy minister of China Foreign Ministry, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Akigo Akigon, presided over a dialogue in Nagano Prefecture, Japan on the 10th, and frankly exchanged opinions on the issues of China -Japan relations and international regions that were concerned about.The two sides also confirmed again that they will actively implement the consensus reached by the Sino -Japanese leaders two months ago in Osaka, and strive to build Sino -Japanese relations that meet the requirements of the new era.
The Kyodo News Agency disclosed more details: China and Japan confirmed that they would face the Chinese President of China next spring ... to strengthen cooperation as a guest visit to Japan.In addition, based on the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to China in the fall of the third year of the third year, ... to build a consensus to build a new era in Japan, the two sides also reached an agreement on the idea of specific promotion.
Analysis generally believes that the restarting strategic dialogue between China and Japan shows that the political mutual trust between the two sides has been continuously enhanced, because strategic dialogue is the main mechanism for strategic communication between major issues between countries.
This is the 14th round of strategic dialogue between China and Japan. The last round was in June 2012, and then the relationship between the two countries was interrupted because of the nationalization of the Diaoyu Islands (known as Jiange) in Japan in August 2012.
In the following years, Sino -Japanese relations have gradually recovered, and the leaders of both sides meet several times, but they are on the sidelines of the international conference.For example, on the 45th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries in November the year before, ... and Abe held talks during the Asia -Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in the Pacific Port Vietnam in Vietnam, and announced that Sino -Japanese relations ushered in a new start.
Subsequently, the meeting between the leaders of the two countries opened the new mode mdash; mdash; directly visited each other.Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang visited Japan on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the China -Japan Peaceful Treaty last year. It was a seven -year visit to Japan after the Chinese Prime Minister; Abe also visited China later, and it was also the Japanese Prime Minister's visit to China again in seven years.
By this year, China -Japan interaction is more frequent.Japan sent warships for the first time to participate in the Chinese shipping type. The two sides also resumed high -level economic dialogue, and the number of high -level exchanges also increased.Two months ago, ... since the first visit to China in 2013, he met with the first visit to China and met with Shinzo Abe at the Summit of the Golden Group in Osaka.
Today, a few days after the Sino -Japanese restart strategy dialogue, the Japanese media disclosed that the vice chairman of China, Wang Qishan, to Japan in October this year to attend the Emperor's Emperor's Ritual Temple, and may talk to Abe's third.Standing before the day.There are also news in Japan that the two sides are coordinating to promote Shinzo Abe to visit China in December.
Japan's successive release of improvement of relations with China, and even in recent years, to support the Belt and Road Initiative in recent years, there must be its strategic needs. One of the main factor behind it is that the regional economic and geopolitical pattern is changing due to the United States.Economically, Japan, as an export economy, has continued to be affected by the Sino -US trade war on its economy, and China is the most important export market in Japan.
Politically, after Japan is concerned about the U.S. government's proposal to Indo -Pacific, Japan and the United States may face greater uncertainty; the relationship between Japan and South Korea is also deteriorating.In order to ensure short -term and long -term economic and security interests, Japan has attaches increasingly attaching great importance to developing relations with China.
China also has the motivation to improve Japan.China is obviously impacted by the trade war, and the economy has continued to slow, and Japan has always been China's largest source of investment.At the same time, China faces a lot of geographical pressures in the field of security, including pressure from the Pacific and Indian Ocean; the Belt and Road Initiative of China also needs to include the participation of neighboring countries including Japan.It can be said that China and Japan have demand for each other.
However, historical experience shows that Sino -Japanese relations have been excessive and there are also great declines.The key to the continuous and stable development of relations between the two countries is always an unspecified sovereign dispute and historical issues.During this time, the two sides highlighted a peaceful and friendly atmosphere and emphasized the importance of cooperation. At the same time, it diluted or even avoided these difficult issues, but in fact, no one can rule out the possibility of Sino -Japanese relations.
It is foreseeable that China and Japan will still adopt pragmatic diplomacy to improve each other's relationship, but the development foundation of the relationship between the two countries is still fragile and sensitive, always involving complex political and historical factors.These structural contradictions obviously cannot be resolved in the short term, but as long as the two sides can work hard to ensure that the Sino -Japanese relations that are recovering will continue to keep warm, it is a good thing for both countries and even the region.
