China and Japan need to continue candid exchanges to smooth over thorny security and diplomatic issues and achieve mutual understanding.
Japan should make the best of China's rapid development and forge ahead with greater cooperation, Wang Chen, minister of the State Council Information Office, told Japanese media.
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China's continuing transformation of its mode of economic development has opened up new opportunities for Sino-Japanese trade.
Despite Japan's escalated maritime disputes with China, discussion about "military threats from China" in Japan is indeed exaggerated, Japan's former defense minister said on Monday.
Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan talked by telephone on Sunday, marking the official activation of the China-Japan prime ministerial hotline, the Foreign Ministry said.
Japan-China economic relations can better be categorized as complementary rather than competitive, said Chi Hung Kwan, senior fellow of Nomura Institute of Capital markets Research in Tokyo Tuesday.
A popular saying, "with great power comes great responsibility" comes to mind when one reads of the news of China reaching another milestone in its phenomenal economic development: replacing Japan as the world's second largest economy.
The Chinese public is more willing to look toward the future rather than the past as the relationship between China and Japan gradually improves, a new survey suggests.
