China says relations with Japan at critical stage

"China's policy towards Japan has always maintained stability and continuity."

Of China's economic and strategic position with total disregard for anything else.

" It is hoped that the Japanese side will establish an objective and correct perception of China"

The "correct" perception is to deny China's aggressive posture and adversarial position.

" and pursue a positive and rational policy towards China."

By sucumbing to China's wishes and demands as a vassal state as all Asian nation should and not oppose China in any way.

It is China that is holding J-Nats, boycotting seafood, attempting to take the Senkakus by bullying. What China is reqiesting is that Japan cease to resist.

Meh, there's always red lines, critical stage, no going back blah blah...it's the CCP way of really saying, they've shafted you, and you should thank them for it.

Their track record says their priority is longevity of the communist party. This is above and at expense of all else, especially their own people, and if your government let them, then at your expense too.

Just look at how they've totally destroyed their own financial system, economy, and social structure of China and HK.

If Japan realized the advantages of being an ally of China, the next first world power..

And if Japan also realize that the US is only using them as its backyard in Asia..

US seeks the crisis in the region to only justify its interventionist presence in order to maintain its decadent hegemony and satisfy its geopolitical whims of power and seizure of natural resources whenever US wants..

History doesn't lie..

signaling ties may be on a steadier footing.

The above if true is good to hear. But who knows what the CCP and Xi are actually thinking behind their dense, great walls? It would be nice to think China is a peaceful trading nation, but their close ties to warmongering Russia, their ongoing support for Russia's invasion, plus China's huge navy and their thuggish naval actions in the Indo-Pacific suggest that the CCP might have more than just trade on their agendas.

Why is the CCP always threatening and giving ultimatums to other countries?

Maybe the CCP can stop the so called "Wolf warrior diplomacy". That would really help.

Better just to totally ignore China when it starts this kind of dialogue.

The Hong Kong economy is fine. It is struggling somewhat to find a new role as the services which HK used to perform as the "gateway" to China are no longer needed as overseas companies setup in Shenzhen, Shanghai or wherever in China.

Japan, a close U.S. ally

US doesn't have 'allies'. It has 'interests'. And sometimes those interests can be thrown under the bus or used as collateral damage.

The Hong Kong economy is fine. 

Hong Kong is a completely changed city from 2019 to now, and all for the worse. I go there regularly for work, and it feels dead now.

TokyoLivingToday 08:00 am JST

If Japan realized the advantages of being an ally of China, the next first world power..

Someday you will beat Libya in gdp per capita, I know you will!!!

If China really wants to be the superpower it tries to be, they can start out by stopping with all this aggressive bullying that nearly the entire world hates them for.

They will never get the positive optics that America has throughout the world with a violent dictator regime that oppresses its people and threatens other countries. China will continue to fail as long as the CCP dictatorship is in place.

deanzaZZRToday 08:39 am JST

The Hong Kong economy is fine. It is struggling somewhat to find a new role as the services which HK used to perform as the "gateway" to China are no longer needed as overseas companies setup in Shenzhen, Shanghai or wherever in China.

You mean after being reduced to just another Chinese city with no greater freedoms than the police state mainland.

Pukey2Today 08:44 am JST

Japan, a close U.S. ally

US doesn't have 'allies'. It has 'interests'. And sometimes those interests can be thrown under the bus or used as collateral damage.

That's a lot of interests willing to go to war with us.

It is more likely that China has a bad relationship with America, not with Japan. Japan is not independent in deciding who is friend and who is enemy. Biden appoints friends for Japan so far

The Hong Kong economy is fine

LOL, I"m referring to HK, Earth. Now despite mainland moving massive amount of money into HK (to protect from CCP). We get:

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/HSI:INDEXHANGSENG?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFs9_n-8WHAxUGyDgGHf2oBikQ3ecFegQILBAX&comparison=INDEXNIKKEI%3ANI225&window=5Y

Property down...

https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3268911/race-bottom-hong-kong-home-prices-slump-multi-year-lows-change-far

Financial Services sector exiting...(along with all the high paying jobs).

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/hong-kongs-financial-sector-faces-talent-crunch-expats-head-exit-2022-01-23/

Don't know how some people can be so casual about the situation. The situation in China and HK are dire, any responsible government with a heart would be doing more, focusing more on the wealthfare of the local people as the only priority. People are homeless despite apartments, even entire city sitting empty.

Instead, the CCP is picking fight with trading partners, and creating market distortions that destroys their own economy as well as trading partner's economy. It is truly abhorrent that they even show up on the international relation scene without any kind of shame. Their citizens are

@Nidbeck32 More like your ideology is blinding you.

US seeks the crisis in the region to only justify its interventionist presence in order to maintain its decadent hegemony and satisfy its geopolitical whims of power and seizure of natural resources whenever US wants..

as simple as is.divide et impera.

US seeks the crisis in the region

Yet, it's China that imposes ban on food import on trading partners causing inflation pain to its own people.

Yet, it's China that sends fleets of ships to harrass neighbours in the maritime domain.

Yet, it's China that backs an invader.

Yet, it's China that brainwash its citizens to harm foreigners.

Yet, it's China that laden unsustainable debt on its own local governments and foreign government.

...I don't think we need basic logic to see the big picture. Because all the while, we know the CCP has heaped enormous sufferings on Chinese people, whilst CCP card carrying members are shifting wealth overseas. It's diabolical! Do they want to rename the country to ChungCeeCeePeeNa now? At this rate China, its culture will not exist soon.

Usual Wumao nonsense. The US has allies. 29 nations participating in RIMPAC with China as the unspoken but designated adversary. It is China that has only Russia and the barking dog NKorea on it's side.

Only autocratic nations would want to be allied with the Chinese autocracy. US hegemony since WWII ended is based on nations willingly allying themselves to the US, knowing that they wont be bullied or absorbed as they would with an autocracy. China itself was an economic basket case until the US lead the world in helping them get off their knees. And thos s how China shows gratitude. Pathetic counttry under the CCP.

Posters are partisan as to render their comments non useful'

When the west and the USA all act in honorable ways, respect International Law and UN rulings {hello...Israel anyone...}, dont issues trade boycotts and embargos {hello...Venezuela, Iran. etc } and dont invade countries leaving failed states {hello Iraq, Libya } and all the multitude of overt and covert activities to undermine other countries ....

well then, and only then, will the west/USA Cabal have any moral right to lecture China.

Until that happens, and it never will {"manifest destiny" crap etc } ,then shut up.

Keep buying Chinese goods, keep exporting raw materials to China and keep crying in your milk.

poor Japan. They should have never colonized their ancestral home land. These attacks will never end.

GuruMickToday 10:12 am JST

China is a second-hand abuser of countries militarily, whether it be through their support of NK, Russia, or Iran. You may say it will never happen that China will go to war with the Philippines or Taiwan, but the rest of us have to plan for what our eyes tell us.

no worries, you can do whatever you want, because.....: who cares! now it is china need Japan, and Japan dont need china at all. Japan has the allies all around the world

Taiwan....when did China "go to war with "US" {lol..."us "] ?

A few border skirmishes with Vietnam and India but no full scale war or invasion like the west and US have done.

Simple facts.

Impossible to convince someone who agree with the genocide in Gaza, but"sparks up " at any mention of China.

Erik MoralesToday  10:17 am JST

poor Japan. They should have never colonized their ancestral home land. 

China is not their ancestral homeland. You really should study the topic first before commenting.

21 UN member nations openly fought China (PRC) in the Korean War, which NKorea started with Russian and Chinese approval. The UN considers that 300,000-400,000 Chineses troops were engaged in the Korean Penninsula. China officially records 2.9 million troops mobilized for the Korean War.

"How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!" Psalm 133.

GuruofDownvotes

Taiwan....when did China "go to war with "US" {lol..."us "] ?

A few border skirmishes with Vietnam and India but no full scale war or invasion like the west and US have done.

Simple facts.

Impossible to convince someone who agree with the genocide in Gaza, but"sparks up " at any mention of China.

Some 180,000 , scores more than all UN and allied forces combined, Chinese troops were slaughtered supporting the illegal and disastrous invasion of South Korea, all to bring about the human rights cess pit that is modern day North Korea, and to actively support and bankroll them.

I get that you’re not big on facts and accuracy, but really, try harder next time.

The government of China is using every clandestine means to harass, to provoke, to persecute Japan, its people, its economy, Its economic zone, its access to shipping essential trading routes.

These threats have to be met with the distain they disserve.

The photo of Wang Yi perfectly symbolises China's attitude towards others.

@OssanAmerica It certainly was a tough sacrifice for a young nation reeling from foreign invasion and civil war but ultimately it was the correct choice that denied the USA imperialist forces the ability to set up military bases on China's border.

I will also point out that the PRC was denied membership to the United Nations at that time.

deanzaZZRToday 01:28 pm JST

@OssanAmerica It certainly was a tough sacrifice for a young nation

So the PRC isn't so old after all, huh?

I will also point out that the PRC was denied membership to the United Nations at that time.

Because they were trying to take the seat from the legitimate government of China.

@deanzaZZR

If you support how badly China treats it’s own people and the people of the world, you are brainwashed from China nationalistic propaganda, or just another slave Chinese bot living in Myanmar. Guessing the latter.

@deanzaZZR

another desperate Chinese person embarrassing themselves by starting fights with everyone. No wonder you folks are perceived so poorly by the world.. Maybe better strategy to try and break the stereotype? I guess enslaved Chinese bots will be punished for not following CCP orders though.

China has never been wealthier or freer than it is today.

I also spend a fair amount of time in mainland China. And things are quite bleak. Unemployment among youth is over 30% and people have a dark perspective for the economic future there and are just quitting society. It’s very dark times in China and the future only looks darker. I feel for my colleagues there, they are all trying to transfer out of China.

nibek:

Hong Kong is a completely changed city from 2019 to now, and all for the worse. I go there regularly for work, and it feels dead now.

Don't go then. I went there recently and I was so glad people weren't burning down buildings or setting people on fire again. You're just disappointed because the gweilo is no longer at the top of the pecking order. That's what happens when European colonialism comes to an end. Deal with it.

If anything, more and more Hongkongers are popping over the border to visit and even retire in the rest of the GBA, like Shenzhen. The only bad thing about HK is that the Mainland has now leapfrogged HK. Just be lucky English is still a co-official language there for the benefits of gweilos. No such accomodation in Japan.

是嗎？多一點說清楚吧。

You are the embarrassment making sweeping statements plucked from the NY Times and BBC.

Pukey2Today 05:26 pm JST

If anything, more and more Hongkongers are popping over the border to visit and even retire in the rest of the GBA, like Shenzhen.

Well, yeah, the rights are the same and it is probably a lot cheaper.

Pukey2Today 05:26 pm JST

I went there recently and I was so glad people weren't burning down buildings or setting people on fire again.

Yeah, the white shirts are in control now.

If anything, more and more Hongkongers are popping over the border to visit and even retire in the rest of the GBA, like Shenzhen.

Totallly false. You just exposed your lack of knowledge about what is actually going on. Hong Kongers are leaving in mass to the UK. Mostly just old people sticking around and Chinese people moving into HK. No wonder all global businesses are leaving the city.

You are the embarrassment making sweeping statements plucked from the NY Times and BBC

Haha, keep digging your hole deeper. You are only confirming my point about how unhappy and desperate Chinese people are under Xi. You are a shining example.

China's argument: Obey our country, respect our country, and make our country a priority.

There is no win-win mentality in China.

The whole world knows that if China stopped importing Japanese goods, it would be much better to sell them to other countries and move factories to ASEAN.

China risk will always exist.

I have never heard of terms like American risk or EU risk.