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]]> http://transpacifica.net/2006/09/09/this-week-china-japan-ties-easing-nakasone-broaches-nuclear-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Transpacific Triangle | by Graham Webster » China Says China, Japan at ‘New on Starting Point’ Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:50:30 +0000 http://transpacifica.net/2006/09/09/this-week-china-japan-ties-easing-nakasone-broaches-nuclear-japan/#comment-111 [...] Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan, who in September said Abe Shinzo would have to behave himself on the Yasukuni Shrine issue as a precondition for a meeting with the Chinese president after becoming prime minister, told a Japanese minister that China and Japan are at a “new starting point.” “The two countries have already broken the five-year-long political stalemate and brought bilateral ties to the normal track of development,” the official Xinhua news agency quoted Tang as telling visiting Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Fuyushiba Tetsuzo. [...] [...] Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan, who in September said Abe Shinzo would have to behave himself on the Yasukuni Shrine issue as a precondition for a meeting with the Chinese president after becoming prime minister, told a Japanese minister that China and Japan are at a “new starting point.” “The two countries have already broken the five-year-long political stalemate and brought bilateral ties to the normal track of development,” the official Xinhua news agency quoted Tang as telling visiting Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Fuyushiba Tetsuzo. [...]

]]> http://transpacifica.net/2006/09/09/this-week-china-japan-ties-easing-nakasone-broaches-nuclear-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Transpacific Triangle | by Graham Webster » Blog Archive » Abe States the Obvious: No Nuclear Japan Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:55:52 +0000 http://transpacifica.net/2006/09/09/this-week-china-japan-ties-easing-nakasone-broaches-nuclear-japan/#comment-84 [...] I don’t think many informed commentators really thought the calls of Nakasone and others would lead to a nuclear Japan any time soon, but it’s notable that Prime Minister Abe Shinzo pledged to Chinese President Hu Jintao at the APEC summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, that Japan would remain a non-nuclear state. Indeed, if a Japanese government decided to develop a nuclear capability, it would be soon in coming. But because the Japanese public still opposes a nuclear military—and, perhaps more significantly, Japan has no immediate need for a non-U.S. deterrent—Japan has little motivation to apply its nuclear savvy to weaponry. [...] [...] I don’t think many informed commentators really thought the calls of Nakasone and others would lead to a nuclear Japan any time soon, but it’s notable that Prime Minister Abe Shinzo pledged to Chinese President Hu Jintao at the APEC summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, that Japan would remain a non-nuclear state. Indeed, if a Japanese government decided to develop a nuclear capability, it would be soon in coming. But because the Japanese public still opposes a nuclear military—and, perhaps more significantly, Japan has no immediate need for a non-U.S. deterrent—Japan has little motivation to apply its nuclear savvy to weaponry. [...]

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