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Fukuda's precarious situation makes it especially important that Hu's visit goes smoothly. Since hitting a low point in 2005, when thousands of Chinese staged anti-Japanese protests in major Chinese cities, typically frosty political relations between the two countries have been warming up a bit - and because of...
And then there are the troublesome T's: Taiwan and Tibet. "Clearly Hu Jintao would like the Japanese to line up and say that they oppose Taiwan's independence, but there's too much opposition to that from within the LDP," says Curtis of Columbia University. Experts expect Fukuda will...
If the summit goes well, though, Fukuda could yet turn around his struggling administration. Abe, his predecessor, was most popular right after his successful visit to Beijing in October 2006. Similar good vibrations could give the current Prime Minister time to reshuffle his Cabinet and survive until July, when the...
Modern China and Japan have never been close. There's just been too much history between the two countries. But ties have improved lately and Beijing's Olympic torch made its tour of Nagano City without much incident last week (unlike a later, tumultuous journey through South Korea). But now...
The news is that Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda may ask Hu for a new panda. (Japan has eight pandas on loan from China.) The sad passing of Ling Ling could thus become an opportunity for the Chinese President to dramatically improve ties between Tokyo and Beijing. He is already...