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A Chinese fishing boat (blue), flanked by a Japan Coast Guard vessel, is moored at Ishigaki port on the southern Japanese island of Ishigaki September 8, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Kyodo
By Yoko Kubota and Chris Buckley
TOKYO/BEIJING |
Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:45pm EDT
TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Saturday demanded Japan apologize for holding a Chinese boat captain, showing few outward signs of softening in a dispute between the two Asian economic powers after Japan gave ground and released him.
The fishing trawler captain, Zhan Qixiong, flew out of Japan on a chartered plane that took him to the coastal Chinese city of Fuzhou, but Beijing's response suggested it still harbored some rancor.
The release followed the detention of four Japanese nationals on suspicion of violating Chinese law regarding the protection of military facilities, though Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku has denied a link between the two incidents.
China's Foreign Ministry said Beijing was angry at the detention of the captain, arrested by Japan over two weeks ago after his trawler collided with two Japanese patrol boats in waters near islands that both sides claim.
"This was an action that gravely violated Chinese sovereignty and the human rights of a Chinese citizen, and the Chinese government strongly protests," said a ministry statement issued after Zhan flew back to China.
China said its claim to the islands -- which it calls the Diaoyu and Japan calls the Senkaku -- was "indisputable."
"It is unlawful and invalid for Japan to detain and investigate the boat captain and to take any legal measures against him," said the statement said, which was issued on the Ministry's website (www.mfa.gov.cn).
"Japan must offer China an apology and compensation over this incident." It did not specify what compensation it wanted.
China's statement also said, however, that the two countries should solve their disputes through dialogue. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan also said it was time for Asia's two biggest economies to put relations back on a steady footing.
"I believe it is necessary for Japan and China to handle matters calmly," he said in New York, where he attended the U.N. General Assembly.
The dispute has underscored the brittleness of ties long troubled by Chinese memories of Japanese wartime occupation and territorial disputes over parts of the East China Sea that could hold rich reserves of gas.
Some Japanese newspapers decried Zhan's release as a backdown that would encourage Chinese assertiveness.
"There is a possibility that it has left an impression that Japan will cave in when pressured," a leading daily, Asahi Shimbun, said in an editorial.
Sun Cheng, an expert on relations between the two countries at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, said it would take time for relations to improve.
"China will want to keep up its case over the Diaoyu islands. Whether Japan actually apologies or gives compensation is not so much the point as making it clear that China won't compromise on sovereignty," he said.
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Sep 24, 2010 8:48pm EDT
I think everyone was waiting for the other shoe to drop. China now feels more comfortable using military and economic power to intimidate other countries. In the long run Japan will under complete Chinese control unless Japan uses its present robust resources to stockpile nuclear weapons. It is not PC, but countries able to deliver nuclear warheads over great distances will be the power brokers of the world for the foreseeable future.
corax
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Sep 24, 2010 9:47pm EDT
Please Japan, don’t bow down in shame to China; America and Japan combined, can cripple the Chinese economy by entering a joint trade war. Give it time and let American politicians feel the heat to do something!
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Sep 24, 2010 11:33pm EDT
Although I find the previous two comments a little harsh, I have to say that China has been acting either very childishly in this matter or is seriously turning into an international bully. It is quite ironic that China is talking about “human rights” when so many human rights organizations are complaining about China’s track record in this area. During the run-up to the Olympic Games I read more than one horrendous story about how the Chinese government treated its own people with a total lack of human respect, impossible in any country seriously concerned with human rights.
Also, China has been one of the oldest and most advanced societies in the world and I find it most disappointing that they are now acting as though they are intellectually degenerating.
Last but not least, I am disappointed and concerned that just now when the US finally has a government that stops interfering in other countries’ issues and waging war based on economic interests, now there is another big country starting to do exactly that. I was so hoping that we could finally get to the point where the whole world could peacefully focus on the advance of human mankind. Shame. Looks like it might take another century or two, if that moment should ever come?
Rhino1
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Sep 25, 2010 12:31am EDT
Violated the human rights of a Chinese citizen? Chinese have human rights? Wow, where have I been all this time…
Benibiker
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Sep 25, 2010 12:58am EDT
One fact and a simple one: Diaoyutai Island is Chinese.
American fellas should grow up and remember: today’s enemies can become tomorrow’s friends and vice versa; only facts remain facts.
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