Chinese envoy urges calm after Japan sub flap
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TOKYO - Japan and China should try to resolve their differences calmly, China&#39;s ambassador to Japan said Saturday, a day after Tokyo filed a protest with Beijing over the intrusion of a Chinese nuclear submarine.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao held out  hopes for closer ties with Japan, state media reported on  Wednesday, notably underplaying tensions over history and  territorial claims.
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China acknowledged today for the first time that one of its submarines had accidentally crossed into Japanese waters last week and expressed regret over the incursion, Japanâs foreign minister said.
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TOKYO, Nov. 12 -- Japan lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government on Friday after determining that an unidentified nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters this week belonged to China.
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China and Singapore on Monday  urged the international community to help calm Beijing's  dispute with Taiwan over its push for independence.
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Japan and China will not hold bilateral talks at an upcoming ASEAN meeting, a Japanese official says, in a sign of continuing tensions between the two.
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Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Wu Dawei has called in Japan&#39;s ambassador to express China&#39;s strong opposition to Tokyo&#39;s decision to issue a visa to former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, state TV reports.
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China has admitted that one of its submarines accidentally intruded into Japanese waters last week and has apologised for the incident, Japan&#39;s top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda says.
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Facing strong protests, China broke a week-long silence Tuesday and offered Japan its first explanation about a Chinese submarine that Tokyo said intruded into Japanese territorial waters and refused to signal its identity.
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The U.S. and Japan on Tuesday called on China to press its ally North Korea for concessions over its nuclear and missile programs, as a delegation from the North arrived in Beijing amid urgent diplomatic exchanges.
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China voiced deep concern on Saturday over Japan's sweeping overhaul of defense policy that eased a decades-old ban on arms exports and suggested a shift from a defensive posture in place since its World War II defeat.
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TOKYO - China has admitted one of its nuclear submarines entered Japanese waters last week and expressed regret, according to Japanese media.
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QUFU, China  - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda concluded a feel-good visit to China on Sunday with a stop at the birthplace of Confucius, but the outlook for better relations could be dampened by his dwindling domestic clout.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura launched a strong protest against the Chinese government and demanded an apology on Friday over an incident in which a submarine deemed to be of Chinese origin infiltrated Japanese waters.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks with Chinese leaders in Beijing on Sunday, seeking a thaw in relations chilled by wartime history and consulting his hosts on North Korea's nuclear threat.
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China voiced deep concern on Saturday  over Japan's sweeping overhaul of defense policy that eased a  decades-old ban on arms exports and suggested a shift from a  defensive posture in place since its World War II defeat.
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BEIJING, China -- China is battling to keep the North Korea nuclear talks alive, saying it hopes the six nations involved would stay calm and flexible.