Wants Many-Faceted Relationship With Japan
PEKING (By Yomiuri Peking Bureau) Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang. Monday said Japan-China relations should be based on a long-range perspective and be many-faceted to ensure development of a stable friendly bilateral relationship.
He made this comment weem Japan and China: when he gave an interview to With this premise in mind, : group of 13 Japanese jour - he said bilateral relations alists led by Kenya should range widely, covering lizukami, editor and manage the fields of economy, ag director of The Yomiuri Shimbun, prior to his visit to
apan
Hu and the Japanese jour alists talked about one hour tthe Great Hall of the Peo- le in Peking
Huis scheduled to visit apan starting November 23. Referring to the visit, he aid that the time was ripe to- Ive in detail the objectives of
be visit
He said that he would perdone week in Japan and xplained the three main ob ectives of the visit
He said he wanted to ex- hange basic views on mat- ers of common interest with apanese leaders in various elds inspect Japan's ad- anced science and echnology and convey the hinese people's friendly sen- ment toward the Japanese eople He added that he ould visit Japan with great
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science culture, education and sports,
He stated that having good neighborly relations between the two countries has weight in China's foreign policy:
Asked what message, he wanted to give to Japan, he said that he would like.to. bless the Japanese people on. behalf of the Chinese peoples
Asked if anything was hindering the development af relations he said that there was no conflict of interest and therefore there was no particular hinderance
only trade and exchanges or discussions on global issue to specific problems such as the Middle East, African and disarmament issues
This could be regarded as Qian's criticism of the Soviet-. shelving of the three Sino- Soviet major disputes over. the Kampuchean and Afghanistan issues and the Sino-Soviet, Sino-Mongolian border problem.
ington relations, Qian said...
He repeated Peking's.call for the United States to live up to the Sino-US communi- que on the US arms sales.to Taiwan last August
Qian said China is ready for normalization negotiations with Hanoi if Vietnam should announce an all-out pullout from Kampuchea and carry out the withdrawal of its: first troop> group from
futan
Asked by Japanese jour-that country nalists about the coming ses Touching on... China's sion with Soviet Foreign. abstention from voting on an Vice-Minister Leonid Ilychev anti-Soviet resolution on the from Thursday, Qian said. September 1'Soviet downing. talks on the reduction - of of a South Korean airliner off military power in the Sino-Sakhalin, Qian-said his Soviet border naturally in- clude the Soviet Army and its arms that is, nuclear
However, he admitted that a segment of the Chinese peo-missiles. ple had some suspicions about Japan and had an unhealthy way of thinking. about Japan-but he said this could be overcome, reaffirm ing China's confidence in Japan.
Or SS-20 Removal PEKING (Kyodo)-China He went on to explain how will take up a call for remov- > ensure stable development ing Soviet medium-ranger Ebilateral friendly relations-SS-20 nuclear missiles in le stressed that they be bas-- Asia in the third-round of d on a long-range perspec ive and be many-faceted and e ever-advancing
He noted that only 11 ears have passed since the wo countries established ge uinely good-neighborly elations
Sino-Soviet foreign-vice- ministers talks, scheduled to resume on Thursday This was disclosed by Foreign Vice-Minister Qian Qichen during a meeting with 13 visiting Japanese jour nalists Monday
Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian and Japanese Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe already agreed on a call. for removal of Soviet SS-20 missiles in Asia during their... meeting in New York, last meeting in New York, last month
government took the action- because the cause and related. situations of the incident. were still not clear and views on the problem varied.:
On the defense policy of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, the Chinese-vice- minister. repeated China's position that it is natural for Japan to have defense power, but Japan's excessive. The Sino-British talks on military ability would invite Hong Kong have already con-apprehensions and opposi tinued for a year and China tion both at home and hopes the talks will complete abroad. in a year, Qian told the Japanese journalists.
The current. Sino-British talks are not on Hong Kong's sovereignty but on various problems in a transitional period until the 1997 expira tion of its lease to Britain and on Hong Kong's continued prosperity after the return to China, Qian stressed
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On relations with the
He said that the 38 years. While briefing them on nce the end of World War II China's diplomacyQians presented the first genera
escribed his talks with United States, Qian highly on: Hu said the two coun- Soviet Foreign Vice-Minister les should build relations Mikhail SKapitsa-last ow on the second and third-month as a good dialogue for enerations representing 60 ears and on new approaches
Noting the fact that there
a difference in the social 'stems and basic-interests etween the two nations, Hu
Cromoting, mutual contacts
and understanding
He and Kapitsa exchanged views on a wide range both international and bilateral problems; Qian said.
id. that he thought it. He said he did not favor and
realistic to attempt to eate total friendship" bet
idea that talks on bilateral relations should be limited to
rated President Ronald Reagan's recent decision to ease US controls on high- technology export: to China, but he stressed what is the most important for China and the US is the Taiwan issue.
Even if Sino-American rela- tions progress in other fields, the Taiwan issue would cast a shadow, on Peking-Wash:
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