Adopting a policy of containment with regard to China's growing clout would be a mistake, the Chinese ambassador to Japan said Tuesday.
Such a policy will not work, Chen Yonghua said in a speech during a meeting hosted by Kyodo News at a Tokyo hotel.
"The development of China is a trend of the times, and any efforts to contain it won't work. That has already been proved in the Cold War era," he said.
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