WORLD WAR ONE ECHOES IN JAPAN-CHINA
TENSIONS.
Japanese
Prime Minister has said that Japan and
China should avoid repeating the past mistakes of Britain and Germany, which fought
in World War One despite their deep economic ties.
Japanese
Prime Minister Abe has said that China and Japan were in a similar situation to
Britain and Germany before 1914, whose close economic ties had not prevented
the conflict.
Abe
has also said that China’s steady rise in military spending was a major source
of regional instability.
According
to the Abe’s comments it should by no means be interpreted to mean that war
between the two Asian giants was possible, nothing that the rule of law not
armed forces and threats were needed for peace and prosperity in Asia.
Sino-Japanese
ties, Long plagued by what Beijing sees as Japan’s failure to atone for its
occupation of parts of China in the 1930s and 1940s, have worsened recently due
to a territorial row, Tokyo’s mistrust of Beijing’s military buildup and Abe’s
December visit to a shrine that critic say glorifies Japan’s wartime past.
Asked
if China and Japan might clash militarily, but Abe replied that such a conflict
would be great loss not only for Japan and China but for the world and we need
to make sure such a thing would not happen.
Japanese
Prime Minister said that China and Japan, the world’s second and third largest
economies respectively have deep business sties and bilateral trade that we
worth nearly 335U$ billion in 2012.
China
criticized Abe’s historical reference, it would be better to face up to what
Japan did to China before the war and in recent history that to say stuff about
pre-World War One British-German relations, foreign Minister spokesman.
According
to the US secretary, visit to China last week, it was stressed from both sides
that they must avoid unilateral action to assert maritime claims, and that
China should work with its neighbors to reduce tension in the East and South
China seas.
At
last Abe, (Japanese Prime Minster) has stressed by telling that we must
restrain military expansion in Asia, which could otherwise go unchecked.
Military
budgets should be made completely transparent and there should be public
disclosure in a form that can be verified adding disputes should be resolved
through dialogue and the rule of law and not through force and coercion. He did
not single out China by name.
