Former Japanese PM talks about Chinese - Japanese relations

9 Jan. - Tokyo

Written by |Abeer Almadawy

former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in an interview talked

to the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun confirming that
Cooperation and common development should be the proper relationships...
this year 2023, marks the 45th anniversary of the signing of the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship.

But it is worth looking at the end of 2022, as the Japanese government approved three updated documents

on its security and defense policies including the new National Security Strategy, vowing to largely increase

its military expenditure for the next five years. In this regard, if this continues,

the relationship between Japan and China will become an arms race.
Fukuda noted that China's military strength had obviously grown

in the past nearly 10 years. However, China does not want really to go to war with Japan.
"Can the two countries really be happy in this way?" Fukuda said, adding that

cooperation and common development should be the relationship between the two countries.
Fukuda referred to the important role of china in economic world stability as he added :

"Without today's China, even the United States cannot develop its own economy well.

The basic consensus should be that Japan, the U.S., and China,

along with the rest of the world, are a community of shared interests."

that last year witnessed the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between

Japan and China because of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship established better relations between the two countries.
Fukuda noted too that although of the good relations it wasn't smooth too.

source of News|Xinhua News Agency

 

 

 

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