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By P. S. Suryanarayana
SINGAPORE, APRIL 11. China today placed the onus squarely on Japan to "do more to enhance mutual trust and safeguard the overall interests of [bilateral] relations" amid protests in Chinese cities against a Japanese history textbook. Japan was asked not to resort to actions that could have a "contrary" impact on the fragile bilateral equation. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, said in Beijing "the relevant authorities have done a lot to ensure the security of Japanese institutes and citizens in China" during the protests over the book, which was reckoned to whitewash imperial Japan's atrocities during the Second World War. The spokesman said "as for a few [instances of] excessive behaviour" on the part of some anti-Japan demonstrators, "this is not what we [the authorities] wish to see." The Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, and the Foreign Minister, Nobutaka Machimura, indicated their readiness to defuse the crisis through talks with the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, and the Foreign Minister, Li Zhaoxing, respectively, within the next two weeks. Mr. Machimura might seek to meet Mr. Li in Beijing next Sunday.
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The Japanese line was that the extent of latent anti-Japan sentiments in China was "beyond [Tokyo's] understanding." Beijing reminded Tokyo that it "must seriously take and properly handle the history of Japanese aggression against China." Tokyo was asked to deal "properly" with "other major issues of principle bearing on the feelings of the Chinese people." Noting that China had "all along required the demonstrators to express their attitude in a calm, rational and orderly manner in accordance with the law," he said China "should not be held responsible" for the anti-Japan groundswell.
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