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◆日中关系被泼冷水 可能事因靖国问题发言
05.23 22:38

就中国副总理吴仪以“紧急公务”为由取消与小泉纯一郎的会谈、提早回国之举,日本政府内部23日蔓延着各种揣测。
外务省高官表示:“应该说明理由。希望遵守最基本的国际规则。与前些时候破坏大使馆的行为有着一脉相同之处。”外务省内也出现了对中方表示不满的声音。
(共同网.中文) Setback for China, Japan relations(中日关系再遇挫折)
Monday, May 23, 2005 Posted: 11:55 PM EDT (0355 GMT)
BEIJING, China -- Relations between China and Japan appear to have suffered another setback following the surprise cancellation of a top-level meeting between political leaders.
Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi was to have met with Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday, but abruptly pulled out, citing pressing domestic issues in China.
On Tuesday, China's official Xinhua news agency said China was "extremely" dissatisfied with remarks repeatedly made by Japanese leaders on visiting a controversial war shrine.
Xinhua said comments on visits to the Yasukuni shrine -- which honors not only Japan's war dead but also some of its more notorious wartime leaders -- did not help improve bilateral relations.
"To our regret, during Vice Premier Wu Yi's stay in Japan, Japanese leaders repeatedly made remarks on visiting the Yasukuni Shrine that go against the efforts to improve Sino-Japanese relations," Xinhua quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan as saying.
"China is extremely unsatisfied with it."
This message was reinforced later by China's Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang.
"We believe a good atmosphere is needed for Wu Yi to visit ... The Japanese government, especially some leaders, do not have a correct understanding and unceasingly spread incorrect remarks regarding history," he told Reuters.
"We think it was very inappropriate to make those remarks while Vice Premier Wu Yi was visiting."
Wu had been on a scheduled eight-day trip to Japan aimed at helping repair tense relations between the two Asian powers.
Some Japanese officials are now calling for a "fuller explanation" of the cancelled meeting given that Wu is now proceeding Tuesday on a visit to Mongolia.
"There was no word of apology," Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Tuesday.
"Even though urgent duty may be unavoidable, there is supposed to be a word of apology, and without it a society cannot function," The Associated Press quotes him saying.
Other ministers also criticized the cancellation. Internal Affairs Minister Taro Aso called the cancellation "in terms of manners, lacked common sense."
But Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda called for calm, saying that such cancellations are common and that Tokyo saw no need for a detailed explanation.
"I don't see any need to go out of our way to find out the reason," AP reports Hosoda saying. "Japan-China relations are long term, broad and deep, including disputes."
Wu is Beijing's top-ranking woman and the most senior Chinese official to visit Japan since 2003.
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