links for 2007-04-07

“Regarding Chinese foreign policy in Iran, Kosovo and other places, including Japan, Zhou advocated diplomacy. About Darfur, he said that China, the U.S. and other countries share the same goal.”

The meeting between technical experts from both nations will be held in Beijing, the Kyodo news agency quoted the Japanese Foreign Ministry as saying on Thursday.

A half-hour meeting between Wen and Daisaku Ikeda, honorary chairman of Soka Gakkai, Japan’s largest lay Buddhist organization, is scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Tokyo.

“A U.S. Treasury Department delegation taking part in talks in Beijing to help North Korea regain $25 million frozen by sanctions left for Washington without settling the dispute” via FP

“Q: Do you know how many Chinese citizens were slaughtered by the Japanese army during the massacre of Nanjing?
A: I don’t know.”

Once, the biggest bilateral food trade flowed between the United States, the world’s largest food exporter, and Japan. But countries with vast arable land available for expansion, particularly Brazil, are now racing to meet demand in China, whose popula