Japanese media say visits to China by ruling party dignitaries are“Uncommon”
Hiroshi Moriyama, secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, will lead a cross-party delegation from the japan-china Friendship Parliamentary Union to visit China from April 27 to 29. This is his second visit to China since January this year, it is also his first visit to China since he became president of the japan-china Friendship League of Parliamentarians.
According to the Japanese“Sankei Shimbun”, Hiroshi Moriyama said at a press conference on the 22nd that when talking about sino-japanese relations, “It is important for Japan and China to work together in order to reduce the topics and outstanding issues between the two countries and increase cooperation and coordination,” he said, expressing the idea of holding discussions with the Chinese side, it added: “We look forward to concrete progress on this [ improved ] bilateral relationship.”
Tetsuo Saito, head of the Komeito Party, has just returned from a trip to China. The Komeito Party is a member of the ruling coalition in Japan. The party posted a news release on its official website on the 25th. Saito said, referring to the results of this visit to China, that the leader of the Komeito Party has visited China every year for many years, it has fostered a“Bond” of friendship between Japan and China and a relationship of trust, with the idea of passing it on to the next generation. Saito said co-ordination and friendly relations between Japan and China were vital to peace, stability and prosperity in the region and the world. In the future, Komeito will also stand at the forefront of“Peaceful diplomacy”.
Tetsuo Saito, file photo, Source: Visual China
Senior members of Japan’s ruling party have been travelling to Beijing in an effort to maintain communication channels with China amid a tariff stand-off between the US and China, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. “Japan’s economic news” 25 comments that the ruling party dignitaries in a short period of time to visit China in succession is not common.
Xiang haoyu, a special researcher at the asia-pacific Institute of the China Institute of International Studies, said in an interview with the Global Times on the 26th that the recent high-level interaction between China and Japan is very special, nor does the impact stop at the bilateral level. At a critical moment when the U.S. tariff policy is stirring up the global economic order, the close interaction between China and Japan is itself the geopolitical impact of the U.S. tariff war, china and Japan as an important economic power in the world to the United States unilateralism, protectionism, a countercurrent response.
Sun Jiashen, an assistant researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Japan Research Institute, also cited pragmatism as a key word in an interview with the Global Times on Wednesday. Sun said Japan’s recent diplomatic initiatives were not only a strategic signal to Beijing but also a“Pragmatic” response to rising trade protectionism. Today, the global trading system is undergoing profound changes. The US tariff policy poses a dilemma for Japan, a close ally, between us pressure to“Decouple” from China and the need to maintain economic and trade ties with Beijing. The two countries remain deeply economically interdependent, forcing Tokyo to tread carefully even in the face of growing pressure from Washington.
Former party leader Natsuo Yamaguchi of the Komeito party and Keiichi Ishii will also visit China from May 28 to 30. The Natsuo Yamaguchi told reporters after a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Sunday that the Nankai University was coordinating a visit to China, calling it an“Educational and cultural exchange,” the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported.