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Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 5, 2014
Abe, Xi likely to have some contact at APEC summit
As the leaders of both China and Japan prepare to attend a regional economic meeting, the event offers them an opportunity to meet and begin to repair deeply frayed relations.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 5, 2014
U.K. loath to pressure China over Hong Kong because of trade, former governor says
Britain is not putting enough pressure on China to stick to its side of an agreement on the transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty because it is worried about damaging trade links, former Hong Kong Gov. Chris Patten said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 5, 2014
Ambassador cites European Union as example for Japan-China reconciliation
Hans Carl von Werthern, Germany's ambassador to Japan, calls himself a "trained mediator." Having served in Beijing prior to his posting in Tokyo, von Werthern has witnessed the turbulent relationship between China and Japan up close. And he is convinced that Japan's reconciliation with China and South...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 5, 2014
Abe Cabinet says deal with China preventing Yasukuni visit 'does not exist'
Japan has decided to hold firm on its stance that it has no agreement with China preventing the prime minister and two other senior leaders from visiting the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 2014
Aquino explains backing Japan's new self-defense policy
Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Tuesday he is backing the Abe administration's reinterpretation of the Constitution to be able to exercise the right to collective self-defense because of the situation Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan Heights have encountered since last year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 4, 2014
Chinese Communist Party's great leap backward
Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign was supposed to signify a shift toward a more transparent system based on the rule of law, but the officials who have been purged so far have been Xi's political adversaries. Xi appears to be pulling China backward politically.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 4, 2014
BOJ money no substitute for tapping China's market
As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks for new growth engines to reinvigorate Japan, he's ignoring obvious ones — like making bolder structural reforms and tapping China's market.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 4, 2014
Japan to press China over coral poaching
Japan will urge China to take "effective measures" to stop Chinese fishermen from poaching valuable coral in Japanese territorial waters and its exclusive economic zone near the Ogasawara and Izu islands, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 4, 2014
Ebola crisis highlights China's philanthropic shortfall
China has contributed over $120 million to fight the spread of the Ebola virus, but its billionaire tycoons — it has more than anywhere outside the United States — have, publicly at least, donated little to the cause, underscoring an immature culture of philanthropy in the world's second-biggest...
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 3, 2014
Fight against Islamic State gives Obama, Xi a rare chance to agree
When the United States and China discuss cooperating against Islamic State later this month, the most prominent outcome is likely to be less criticism of each other's anti-terrorism policies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Nov 3, 2014
Only catastrophe can rob China of No. 1 spot
For China not to become the world's largest economy, it would take a collapse on a bigger scale than anything we've seen in recent world history, short of Zimbabwe or North Korea.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 3, 2014
Xi, Abe may not meet at APEC summit next week: Xinhua commentary
China's official Xinhua News Agency pours cold water on the idea that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Xi Jinping could have formal talks next week.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 3, 2014
China successfully develops laser system to defend against drones, Xinhua reports
China has successfully tested a self-developed laser defense system against small-scale low-altitude drones, according to state media.
WORLD
Nov 3, 2014
Chinese submarine docks in Sri Lanka despite Indian concerns
Sri Lanka has allowed a Chinese submarine and a warship to dock at its port in Colombo, officials said on Sunday, despite concerns raised by India about China's warming relations with the Indian Ocean island nation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 2, 2014
China's rule by law, not of it
China is embarked on a major reform dedicated, leaders claim, to improving the rule of law, but subject to the will of the ruling Communist Party. This is really rule by law, not the rule of law.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 31, 2014
In Guangdong, nervy Chinese ramp up Ebola watch
Chinese authorities have identified the southern province of Guangdong, home to Asia's biggest African population, as a front line in their efforts to prevent the deadly Ebola virus from entering mainland China.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 31, 2014
APEC diplomacy could help thaw chilly ties
Next month's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Beijing looks like a high-risk enterprise, as it is not even clear if Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye will agree to meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for discussions aimed at lowering tensions in the region.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 30, 2014
Former Prime Minister Fukuda meets Xi again
A meeting Wednesday between former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing was a positive step for repairing strained bilateral ties, the Abe administration said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2014
Will Hong Kong go beyond self-flagellation?
Hong Kong and mother China should be working together on ameliorating the social and economic pressures threatening to pull Hong Kong down far more dramatically and dangerously than today's governance dispute.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2014
Japan drafts new space policy focusing on security to counter China
Japan is eyeing a new space development policy with a greater focus on security, taking into account China's rapidly growing space capabilities, a draft document of the policy showed Wednesday.

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