BEIJING: China and Japan should work together to promote stable, lasting bilateral relations and to uphold re-gional and international peace and stability, Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, said on Wednesday.
Wang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and di-rector of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, made the remarks in a video speech at the 20th Beijing-Tokyo Forum.
Wang noted that China and Japan have an exchange history of more than 2,000 years and that it has been over 50 years since the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries. He said a China-Japan relationship with the right development direction is not only of great and positive signifi-cance to both countries and their peoples but also to the peace and development of the region and the world.
Both sides should be guided by the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, adhere to the original aspirations of relations, follow the right path, seek common ground, and coordi-nate actions, all with the aim of promoting stable, lasting bilateral relations, Wang said. He said the two sides should understand the correct positioning of bilateral relations. China has always regarded Japan as an important cooperation partner and hopes that Japan can view China’s develop-ment objectively and rationally. He also hopes that Japan will work with China to follow the correct po-sitioning of the comprehensive advancement of the strategic, mutually beneficial relations between China and Japan and implement the important consensus that the two countries should be coopera-tive partners and not pose a threat to each other.
The two sides should maintain the political foundations of bilateral relations. The four political docu-ments between China and Japan have laid the political and legal foundations for bilateral relations, and they should not be blurred, retrogressed or undermined, Wang said. –The Daily Mail-CGTN news exchange item
