New Chinese envoy to Japan says bilateral ties at critical juncture

Well, Wu is off on a good start with his aggressive comments. Looks like he will take the wolf warrior approach.

His next meeting is with Chuck Fina, US ambassador of pleasantries.

Regarding bilateral ties, Wu emphasized that China has "no intention of treating Japan as an enemy."

And we know how intentions go...

We all want to have good and peaceful relations with China, but how can anybody when China wants to run roughshod over everybody?

Welcome Mr Wu, you are right, Taiwan has nothing to do with Japan or importantly their master, the USA.

@Paul, The CCP is not fascist (yet), but they are totalitarian over China and it's citizens. A lot of us wish the CCP was either a better governing party, or just disappeared from China altogether. China has the potential to be an amazing country. But the CCP keeps focusing on keeping their power, and not helping China become the best the country can be on the global state.

Wu emphasized that China has "no intention of treating Japan as an enemy."

Given China's history of saying one thing while doing the opposite, this doesn't bode well for regional peace.

What Xi means by "bilateral ties" is probably not what a normal person means by bilateral ties.

Well, Wu is off on a good start with his aggressive comments. Looks like he will take the wolf warrior approach.

Yeah, you can take wolfy out of wolf den but you can't take the wolf out of wolfy.

Wu seems like your typical Chinese warmonger. Talking about the possibility of "using force" to take over free Taiwan is a disgrace. The US, Japan and the rest of the free world in the region stands with the peaceful, freedom-loving Taiwanese.

Wu - you and your outrageous, warmongering views are not welcome in Japan.

Taiwan never has been and never will be part of Communist China.

China's "genuine internal affairs."

Easily solved if the west properly recognizes Taiwan. Until we do, PRC will keep pushing their claim, backed the west!

Wu said Beijing hopes for the peaceful reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, but did not rule out the possibility of using force, saying it will work as "deterrence against the independence of Taiwan and assurance of cross-strait peace and stability."

Here is the threat, complete control of the regional and global shipping lanes

The Government of Japan must except that The Government of China is an existential threat to the people of Japan security and welfare.

The declaration of course makes no mention about who is completely responsible of these critical time of the relationship and instead tries to shift the responsibility completely on the Japanese side.

The moral posturing with regard to Japan's largest trade partner is bizarre. How could a country trade with such a "threat".

Yeah, you're RIGHT. Time for china to stop threatening everyone

Easily solved if the west properly recognizes Taiwan.

They did, still does, so do the UN

ianToday  06:11 pm JST

Easily solved if the west properly recognizes Taiwan.

They did, still does, so do the UN

I don't think so. In 1971 Taiwan (ROC) was replaced by China (PRC). And since then Taiwan has not been a UN member, because it's membership has been blocked by the UNSC, namely China.

Only some 13 countries in the world officially recognize Taiwan as a soveregn nation.

OssanAmericaToday  09:05 pm JST

ianToday  06:11 pm JST

Easily solved if the west properly recognizes Taiwan.

They did, still does, so do the UN

I don't think so. In 1971 Taiwan (ROC) was replaced by China (PRC). And since then Taiwan has not been a UN member, because it's membership has been blocked by the UNSC, namely China.

Only some 13 countries in the world officially recognize Taiwan as a soveregn nation.

Yup as I said, the west properly recognizes Taiwan.

And China.

Only some 13 countries in the world officially recognize Taiwan as a soveregn nation.

See it's very clear if you just lay down the bare facts

UN Resolution 2759 passed on October 25, 1971 lays it out quite clearly. The wording is even a bit spicy IMO.

"Recognizing that the representatives of the Government of the People's Republic of China are the only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations and that the People's Republic of China is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council,

Decides to restore all its rights to the People's Republic of China and to recognize the representatives of its Government as the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations, and to expel forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations and in all the organizations related to it."

http://www.taiwandocuments.org/un2758-XXVI.htm

UN Resolution 2759 passed on October 25, 1971 lays it out quite clearly. The wording is even a bit spicy IMO. 

"Recognizing that the representatives of the Government of the People's Republic of China are the only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations and that the People's Republic of China is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council,

Decides to restore all its rights to the People's Republic of China and to recognize the representatives of its Government as the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations, and to expel forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations and in all the organizations related to it."

http://www.taiwandocuments.org/un2758-XXVI.htm

The most disgraceful thing the UN has ever done. My understanding is the US tried to block it but various European countries were hellbent on poking the US in the eye at the time.

UN Resolution 2759 roll call: 76 for - 35 against

To think that a territory with a population of approximately 15 million in 1970 represented the will of 800 million Chinese on the Mainland was a fraudulent situation that needed to be fixed.

1970s era Taiwan was nothing like the democratic Taiwan today. Chiang's Taiwan was still under martial law with political prisoners locked away on Green Island.

1970s era Taiwan was nothing like the democratic Taiwan today. Chiang's Taiwan was still under martial law with political prisoners locked away on Green Island.

Yeah, but people should have had the foresight that it wasn't always going to be a dictatorship. The US was pushing for the 24 million people in Taiwan today to have SOME representation and now they have none.

Another entertainer like Ambassador Lu Shaye in France? China cannot produce polite diplomats anymore to do its lies, and that is not necessarily a bad thing.