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China foreign minister leaves for Japan, visit by President Hu on the agenda
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 17 - 04 - 2008


China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi left
Thursday for a trip to Japan where he is expected to
finalize details for a landmark official visit by China's
president early next month, according to AP.
The visit by President Hu Jintao, expected to start May 6,
will be the first such trip by a Chinese president in 10
years, and is the latest sign of warming ties between the
rival neighbors.
A Foreign Ministry official confirmed that Yang left
Thursdaybut she gave no details.
Japanese media have already been playing up Hu's visit,
with Kyodo News agency on Wednesday citing unidentified
officials as saying Hu and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda
would play pingpong at a university in Tokyo.
Such an event would be reminiscent of the «pingpong
diplomacy» of the early 1970s, when an exchange of players
from the United States and China marked a thaw in relations
between Washington and Beijing.
The countries have improved ties recently after they
plunged over former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's
repeated visits to a Tokyo war shrine, and disputes over
issues including exploitation of gas deposits in the East
China Sea.
A series of bilateral talks on the gas deposits have not
appeared to bring the two sides any closer to a resolution.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said the
details of Hu's visit have not been decided, but sports
have played important roles in recent summits.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao played baseball when he visited
Japan last September, and Fukuda and he tossed around a
baseball when the Japanese prime minister visited China in
December.
Hu is expected to give a lecture at Waseda University,
Fukuda's alma mater, on May 8, and then play pingpong with
the prime minister, Kyodo reported.


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