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...week's end, with a few whisks of their Chinese writing brushes, Tanaka of Japan and Premier Chou En-lai of China signed an agreement to end "the state of war" between the two countries and establish diplomatic relations immediately. The summit was much more than a delayed coda to World War II however. The reconciliation between the two nations-one of them the world's fastest-growing industrial democracy, the other its most populous and doctrinaire Communist nation-had ended "an abnormal state of affairs," as Chou put it with considerable understatement. In resuming normal relations with...
...Tanaka-Chou communique, the Japanese managed to deal with the agonizing Taiwan issue by saying simply that Japan "understands and respects" Peking's claim to the island; known as the Dutch formula, that position went further than the Nixon-Chou communique (the U.S. merely "recognized" Peking's claim), but it still stopped short of an explicit repudiation of the Nationalist government...
...anti-Japanese policy, might simply push Tokyo closer to Moscow, which recently increased Russian military strength along China's border from 47 to 50 divisions. The Chinese also need Japanese technology to help modernize their economy. Then there is the age factor: now that Mao is pushing 79, Chou, who is 74, could be hurrying to complete Peking's return to outward-looking diplomacy while the Chairman is still around to give it his imprimatur...
Locked in War. One question that only the summit can answer is how anxious the Chinese are to force Japan to sever formally its ties with Taiwan. Chou himself has hinted that he would be willing to see Japanese business continue to operate on Taiwan, which imports more than $760 million in Japanese goods annually (China's imports from Japan totaled $578 million last year, and they are not expected to rise dramatically even if diplomatic relations are established). But it remains to be seen how tough Peking intends to be about its longtime insistence that Tokyo must flatly...
Certainly, the summit will not bring instant warmth to relations between China and Japan. They have been rivals for centuries and locked in war -military or verbal-almost continuously since the annexation of Formosa (Taiwan) by Japanese troops in 1895. So far, Chou has not publicly softened his oft-expressed view that Japan's economic growth "is bound to bring about military expansion." Given the history of hostility on both sides, the prospect is thus for a summit of convenience, not for a summit of real reconciliation...