China says ties with Japan at "new starting point"
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China and Japan stand at a "new starting point" in their relations following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Beijing in October, Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan said in remarks published on Sunday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Japan Lends To Environment, Development Projects in SW China" - Xinhua headline]  Guiyang, Feb.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan, in a conciliatory gesture aimed at China's newly consolidated leadership, proposed a fresh start yesterday on long-suspended talks to improve relations and lower tension across the Taiwan Strait.
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France is willing to further promote friendly ties with China and with the Chinese people, said French President Jacques Chirac in Beijing Sunday evening.
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Japan's new PM Shinzo Abe uses his first speech to say he wants to repair relations with China and South Korea.
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TOKYO, Sept. 26 -- After easily winning election in votes by parliament, Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, pledged Tuesday to repair tattered relations with China, bolster his country's long-standing alliance with the United States and overhaul the pacifist constitution.
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Japan formally invites China's top two leaders to visit next spring in the latest effort to mend damaged ties.
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Japan's new leader Shinzo Abe is ready to hold talks with China and South Korea at any time, a spokesman says.
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Leaders of China, Japan and South Korea vowed Monday to strengthen cooperation in resolving the crisis over North Korea's nuclear programs and to tighten security and economic ties.
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Outspoken conservative Shinzo Abe has taken office as Japan's youngest prime minister, pledging to repair strained ties with China and advance the alliance with the United States.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will make his first visit to China next week in a bid to strengthen ties, but with a breakthrough in a natural resources dispute unlikely he could face further trouble back home.
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Japan wants to hold a leaders' meeting   with China sometime in October, Foreign Minister Taro Aso said   on Wednesday, adding that a visit to Beijing by new Prime   Minister Shinzo Abe was one option.
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India and China begin their first 'strategic dialogue' in the latest sign of improving relations.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda played a friendly game of catch during his visit to China on Saturday, a symbol of warming ties between the North Asian rivals despite a row over gas resources in disputed waters.
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SANTIAGO : Chinese President Hu Jintao has told Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that his visits to a shrine honouring Japan&#39;s war dead including war criminals are the &quot;crux&quot; of the problem in Sino-Japanese ties.
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TOKYO -- Japan's new nationalist prime minister pledged yesterday to make his country a decisive force on the international stage and push for a reduction in tensions with China and South Korea.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing expressed hope on Friday that a rapprochement in ties with Tokyo would stay on course, but also mentioned the wartime past that haunts relations.