China and Japan open hotline for emergency
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June 1, 2010, Tuesday
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CHINA and Japan agreed yesterday to set up an emergency hotline and resume talks on jointly exploring gas fields in the East China Sea.
Visiting Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama held talks in Tokyo and reached agreement on issues including the East China Sea, food safety and maritime communication to further boost bilateral ties.
The two leaders also agreed to speed up the establishment of a maritime communication mechanism between defense departments of the countries, negotiate and sign an agreement on ocean rescues at an early date, and establish a cooperation mechanism on food safety.
The hotline between Beijing and Tokyo would allow the premiers of the two countries to discuss quickly what Wen called "important issues" between the two nations.
"China sees Japan as a strategic partner, not a competitor or a rival," Wen said.
" The two neighbors should view each other as partners so as to have peaceful coexistence and long-lasting friendship."
Dual invitation
He added that the two sides should strengthen high-level communication on major issues, continue to work on implementing consensus on the East China Sea issue, and avoid confrontation to make it "a sea of peace, cooperation and friendship."
Wen later told Japanese business executives the huge economic flows between the two nations, with bilateral trade worth US$238.7 billion last year, would cement closer ties, Reuters reported.
"China and Japan have very close economic and trade ties," he said. "One could say they are at the point where neither could do without the other."
Wen said friendship between the two peoples served as the basis for amicable relations between Japan and China.
China will invite 1,000 youths from Japan to the Shanghai World Expo and invite Japanese rescuers to revisit Wenchuan of southwest Sichuan Province to see rebuilding in the area leveled by an earthquake in May, 2008.
The two countries also decided to arrange exchange of visits by people working in mass communication and social sciences.
Hatoyama said he was very keen on traveling to Shanghai to attend the national pavilion day of Japan in June and believed the Shanghai Expo would greatly boost ties between the two countries.
Wen put on a black track suit in the early morning to jog through leafy Yoyogi Park in Tokyo.
Accompanied by panting guards and media representatives, he greeted local residents jogging or walking dogs, and joined some to practise traditional Chinese tai chi exercises.
"Do you know who I am?" he asked some of them.
They most certainly did.
"The Chinese people send their greetings," he told the people in the park.
Wen arrived in Tokyo on Sunday for a three-day official state visit.
Japan is the second leg of his four-nation Asian tour, which has taken him to South Korea. He will also visit Mongolia and Myanmar.
Visiting Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama held talks in Tokyo and reached agreement on issues including the East China Sea, food safety and maritime communication to further boost bilateral ties.
The two leaders also agreed to speed up the establishment of a maritime communication mechanism between defense departments of the countries, negotiate and sign an agreement on ocean rescues at an early date, and establish a cooperation mechanism on food safety.
The hotline between Beijing and Tokyo would allow the premiers of the two countries to discuss quickly what Wen called "important issues" between the two nations.
"China sees Japan as a strategic partner, not a competitor or a rival," Wen said.
" The two neighbors should view each other as partners so as to have peaceful coexistence and long-lasting friendship."
Dual invitation
He added that the two sides should strengthen high-level communication on major issues, continue to work on implementing consensus on the East China Sea issue, and avoid confrontation to make it "a sea of peace, cooperation and friendship."
Wen later told Japanese business executives the huge economic flows between the two nations, with bilateral trade worth US$238.7 billion last year, would cement closer ties, Reuters reported.
"China and Japan have very close economic and trade ties," he said. "One could say they are at the point where neither could do without the other."
Wen said friendship between the two peoples served as the basis for amicable relations between Japan and China.
China will invite 1,000 youths from Japan to the Shanghai World Expo and invite Japanese rescuers to revisit Wenchuan of southwest Sichuan Province to see rebuilding in the area leveled by an earthquake in May, 2008.
The two countries also decided to arrange exchange of visits by people working in mass communication and social sciences.
Hatoyama said he was very keen on traveling to Shanghai to attend the national pavilion day of Japan in June and believed the Shanghai Expo would greatly boost ties between the two countries.
Wen put on a black track suit in the early morning to jog through leafy Yoyogi Park in Tokyo.
Accompanied by panting guards and media representatives, he greeted local residents jogging or walking dogs, and joined some to practise traditional Chinese tai chi exercises.
"Do you know who I am?" he asked some of them.
They most certainly did.
"The Chinese people send their greetings," he told the people in the park.
Wen arrived in Tokyo on Sunday for a three-day official state visit.
Japan is the second leg of his four-nation Asian tour, which has taken him to South Korea. He will also visit Mongolia and Myanmar.
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