September 4, 2009

China demands end to U.S. naval surveillance

A Chinese government delegation last week demanded that the U.S. halt air and sea military surveillance near Chinese shores. The demand came during a joint meeting of the Military Maritime Consultative Agreement talks and was reported in state-run Chinese press. Washington has not publicly responded to the Chinese demand. Successive administrations in Washington have remained silent over the issue of aggressive Chinese spying on the United States (FULL STORY)
People's Republic of China Navy ships arrive in Pearl Harbor, in 2006 for the first of a series of events agreed upon by both countries in the Military Maritime Consultative Agreement. SN Joe Kane, USN       

Beijing generally upbeat about new ruling party in Tokyo, 'Japan's Obama'

The Chinese Communist Party leadership has expressed guarded optimism about Sino-Japanese relations after the game-changing victory of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in parliamentary polls on Sunday. While party officials have refrained from direct statements on the DPJ’s ascendancy, commentators in the official media have raised hopes that DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama could revise the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) more than five decades of single-minded reliance on the United States not only for nuclear deterrence but also for guidance in foreign policy.  (FULL STORY)
Japan's Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 31.    Reuters/Issei Kato
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