China and Japan are committed to an alliance for the next decade.
China Embassy 10 (May 30, http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng/zgyw/t705311.htm) LL
From May 29 to 30, the third trilateral summit of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) was held in ROK's Jeju island. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Lee Myung-bak attended the meeting, which was chaired by Lee Myung-bak. The three leaders spoke highly of the rapid expansion and growth of the trilateral cooperation in recent years, made planning for the direction and priority areas of trilateral cooperation for the next ten years, exchanged in-depth views on current major international and regional issues and reached broad consensus. The three leaders pledged to make unremitting efforts in pushing trilateral ties towards the direction of good-neighborly mutual trust, comprehensive cooperation, mutual benefit and common development and advance the cooperation to a new high.
China and Japan have taken steps toward solidifying an alliance based on strategic and economic interests
Xinhua 9 (Sep 22, http://frankfurt.china-consulate.org/det/zgyw/t605899.htm) LL
China and Japan, Hu said, are friendly neighbors separated only by a narrow strip of water. He pointed out that both nations are important countries in Asia and the world. Hu noted that China-Japan relations are among each country's most important bilateral ties. He said cooperation and bilateral exchanges between China and Japan have reached unprecedented levels in a variety of fields since the two countries normalized relations 37 years ago. Leaders of the two countries, Hu said, have maintained close exchanges of visits and contacts, especially since 2006, as they decided to build a strategic and mutually beneficial relationship. "This was the first time that the two sides made positioning and planning of bilateral relations on a strategic level," Hu said. "During the state visit that I paid to Japan last year, the two sides worked out the blueprint for future development of China-Japan relations and pointed out the direction of the growth of bilateral relations in the 21st century by issuing the fourth political document between the two countries," Hu said. The improvement and development of bilateral relations has not only brought major benefits to China and Japan, it also has contributed positively to peace, stability and prosperity in Asia and the world, Hu said. China has always viewed and developed China-Japan relations from a strategic and long-term perspective. Hu said China will continue to pursue its policy of China-Japan friendship and work with Japan to realize the goal of peaceful coexistence, friendship for generations, mutually beneficial cooperation and common development. Hu, noting that the world is currently undergoing complicated and profound changes, said China and Japan are sharing increasing common interests and challenges. "Bilateral relations are facing major opportunities for development at higher levels and in greater space," Hu said. He said China is ready to work with Japan to advance their mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic interests in a sustained and in-depth way by proceeding from the fundamental interests of both peoples and conforming to the trend of world development. President Hu put forward five propositions on developing China-Japan relations. First, Hu said, the two countries should enhance high-level communication so as to improve political trust. Leaders of the two countries should maintain contact and continuously add political impetus to the development of bilateral ties. Second, Hu said, the two countries should promote trade and economic cooperation and strengthen the ties of interests. China and Japan are both major world economies and important trade partners to each other. Strengthening trade and economic cooperation will be conducive for both countries to overcome the international financial crisis and to encourage recovery for both economies and the economy of the world at the earliest possible date, he said. Hu said the second high-level economic dialogue between China and Japan held in Japan in June set goals of trade and economic cooperation for the future. Relevant government departments of the two countries, Hu said, should take practical measures to fully implement the results of the dialogue so as to advance bilateral trade and economic cooperation to a higher level. Third, Hu said, the two countries should improve the feelings of their people towards each other to consolidate the basis of public opinion. Hu said the two sides should focus on the good trend of China-Japan friendship by carrying out exchanges between their young people, cadres, cultures and media so as to push for the improvement of the feelings of their people towards each other. Fourth, Hu said, the two countries should enhance cooperation on Asian affairs and push for coordination in international affairs. As two important countries in the region, Hu said, China and Japan should jointly work for denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and safeguard peace and stability in Northeast Asia. The two sides should also carry out dialogue, coordination and cooperation on global challenges such as the international financial crisis, climate change, environment and energy, he said. Fifth, Hu said, China and Japan should properly deal with their differences and maintain their friendship. As neighbors with close contact, China and Japan inevitably have some problems and differences in bilateral relations. The two countries should have an overall point of view and deal with these problems prudently and properly so as to prevent them from affecting the steady development of the bilateral relations.
Japan Says No
China and Japan have a mutually beneficial and interdependent relationship
Abe 8 (J, PHP Foreign Policy, February 2008, http://research.php.co.jp/research/foreign_policy/policy/data/seisaku01_teigen34_01.pdf) LL
On the one hand there is China, a country continuing to achieve remarkable economic growth and gradually expanding its global “presence.” On the other hand, there is Japan, a nation searching for direction in the context of the collapse of the ’55 system and transformed post-cold war international order. We have entered into an era in which Japan and China must face one another directly and cooperate in creating a mutually-constructive relationship. Economic ties between Japan and China have already achieved a level of interdependence that neither nation wishes to upset. Both countries can ill afford to overlook the interests of the other. Far from limiting cooperation to the economic sphere, the two powers have much to gain by also enhancing collaboration in other areas and contributing to regional and global development. It can be said that the relationship between the two countries is a “mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic interests.”
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