CAN ECONOMIC TIES BREAK POLITICAL IMPASSE?

摘要

If not, then the prolonged disharmony in Sino-Japan political relations may undermine bilateral economic cooperation. On May 16, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was reported to have expressed disagreement with China and South Korea for theircriticism of Japan's wartime history and said that he would continue worship at the Yasukuni Shrine that houses memorial tablets of 14 Class A war criminals in World War II. This so enraged the Chinese that they left thousands of angry messages on websites that very day.