The leader of Japan's ruling junior coalition partner said Wednesday that he has asked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to write a personal letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, as he is slated to visit the neighboring country later this month.
After their talks at the prime minister's office, Komeito chief Natsuo Yamaguchi quoted Kishida, who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, as saying he will "consider" doing so.
Yamaguchi's planned visit to China comes at a time when Beijing has been criticizing Japan's plan to release treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. The release may start as early as by the end of this month.
Komeito, a political party backed by Japan's largest lay Buddhist group, Soka Gakkai, has urged the Chinese Communist-led government to realize a meeting with Xi during Yamaguchi's tour scheduled for three days from Aug. 28.
The self-claimed "peace" party has been seeking to help improve bilateral relations between Tokyo and Beijing that have recently been marred by the water release issue.
This year marks the 45th anniversary of the conclusion of the 1978 bilateral Peace and Friendship Treaty.
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Wesley
Why? Xinnie the Pooh can't read.
isabelle
...will be as pointless as all other visits to China by everyone. He will just get the same lies the world has gotten from China for years.
wallace
No mission of peace is hopeless and it will bring a small but significant upturn. Nothing ventured nothing gained.
Zoroto
Xi will only see him if he brings omiyage and bows to him.
EvilBuddha
No mission of peace is hopeless and it will bring a small but significant upturn. Nothing ventured nothing gained.
Wonder when he will be going to Moscow then to meet Putin.
Or is it that Komeito's overtures are for China only? Why is it that the Soka Gakkai considers it a badge of honour that they played a role in normalization of ties between China and Japan? Why do they play up the friendship between Ikeda and Zhou Enlai (Mr. Chew and Lie).
Now that China has become a problem for many Asian countries when will Soka Gakkai accept that, in a small way, they too are responsible.
kibousha
Komeito, in bed with Xi, it's why I'll never vote these guys
Agent_Neo
China's nuclear power plants continue to release a large amount of wastewater containing tritium, which is many times that of Japan.
Besides that, it continues to make copies without protecting copyrights, invading Japanese territory and territorial waters, and trying to protect Beijing at the expense of many Chinese people due to floods caused by heavy rains. , severe environmental pollution.
There are too many things to complain about in China.
Nicolò
Why don't you just fax it? It's quick and the results would be the same.
Paul
No need to visit China!
itsonlyrocknroll
Of course diplomacy is an essential tool, at least communicate with the government of China.
However the government of China continuing failure too respect any globally agreed law-based governance model.
Front center is trust in it basic form, government of China is a dictatorship.
Most worryingly is a fundamental refusal to respect and limit unfair government subsidies, overcapacity, intellectual property (IP) theft, a whole range of protectionist off market/rail policies leading to clear distortions to the global free economy.
Then the we get to the China’s social credit system
In the Chinese media own words....
What is China’s social credit system and why is it controversial?
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3096090/what-chinas-social-credit-system-and-why-it-controversial
Some state, well at least they are being open about this pernicious form of behavioral surveillance.
I say this is a warning, a threat to every Chinese citizen, every aspect of your families wellbeing is at stake if you do not kowtow.