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The rifts of World War II continue to dominate the modern relationship between Japan and China.[Reuters]
New Japanese PM visits Beijing to build better ties - Audio feature from Connect Asia program 27/12/2007
 listen windows media >Japan's new prime minister Yasuo Fukuda is hoping he can show a little diplomatic flair to improve the country's thorny relationship with China. Mr Fukuda sets off today on a four day visit to Beijing to continue the reconciliation drive started by his predecessor Shinzo Abe. Presenter - Joanna McCarthy Speaker - Tsuneo Watanabe, Adjunct Fellow of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Japan Japanese activists dispute Nanjing massacre death toll - Audio feature from Connect Asia program 17/12/2007
listen windows media >Japan says it wants to look to the future while working with China to ease tensions over the past, as China marks the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. But many Japanese activists dispute the death toll figure of 300,000 as claimed by China. Presenter - Sen Lam Speaker - Colin Mackerras, Professor Emeritus, Griffith University, Queensland Japan-China military-diplomatic split over US ships - Audio feature from Connect Asia program 12/12/2007
listen windows media >A top Japanese diplomat says a split seems to opening between China's military and diplomats in the refusal to allow United States Navy ships into Hong Kong. The ambassador has also given an account of Japan defeating China's opposition to get Australia and India accepted as a member of the East Asia summit. Presenter - Graeme Dobell Speaker - Japan's Ambassador to Canberra, Taka-aki Kojima China and Japan continue to mend relationship, slowly - Audio feature from Connect Asia program 04/12/2007
listen windows media >China and Japan have failed to make any progress toward resolving a long running dispute over energy resources during weekend talks in Beijing. Both nations claim the rights to large reserves of oil and gas in the East China Sea which overlap territorial boundaries. China is already pumping gas from the disputed zones despite protests from Tokyo. With billions of tons of oil at stake and despite 11 meetings so far, the issue remains one of the most troublesome in the relationship. Presenter - Karon Snowdon Speaker - Dr Ron Huisken from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University China cautious of trilateral security alliance - - Audio feature from Connect Asia program 07/09/2007
Relationship between Japan and China should be addressed - Audio feature from Connect Asia program 27/08/2007
listen windows media >Former Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating has come out saying the Asia Pacific leaders summit must start to deal with the deteriorating relationship between Japan and China. He says that Asia Pacific must start to confront the divide between Japan and China, and build on the foundation laid down by the creation of the APEC summit. East Asia's concern in Cold War rhetoric - Audio feature from Correspondent's Notebook 08/06/2007
listen MP3 >East Asia is thinking about the danger of a new Cold War - with the United States and Japan on one side and China on the other. Radio Australia's foreign affairs correspondent, Graeme Dobell, covered both conferences and filed these thoughts from Kuala Lumpur. |
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