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Xinhua: Japan Unable to Understand China’s Protest on Exercise Interference

Xinhua recently reported that Yang Yujun, spokesperson for the Chinese Defense Ministry, announced at a press conference that the Japanese Navy has performed intensive following, monitoring, and intelligence gathering whenever the Chinese Navy was in the middle of a military exercise mission in the Western Pacific high seas. China officially protested against the Japanese Navy’s behavior. However the Japanese Defense Minister stated on November 1 that he was “completely unable to understand” China’s reaction as international law permits Japan’s activities, so they are therefore fully lawful. The Japanese government expressed the intent to continue to pay attention to China’s military activities. Yang Yujun also warned that Japan’s recent activities have frequently “produced a war-time atmosphere.”
Source: Xinhua, November 1, 2013
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2013-11/01/c_125636532.htm
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China Won’t Use War to Destroy Japan but Will Use a Protracted Fight to Make it Suffer Chronic Pain

Huanqiu [under People’s Daily] published a commentary claiming that, in case the conflict between them escalates into war, China will let Japan suffer long-term chronic pain instead of a one-time hit. Below are some selected excerpts from the article.

"Japan announced that it would consider "shooting down" China’s drone if it flew over the Diaoyu Islands. China’s Defense Ministry spokesman responded by saying that, if the Japan were to do so, it would be an ‘act of war.’ The Chinese side would certainly and decisively ‘fight back.’" 
"Today, the official exchange of words between China and Japan no longer avoids such words as ‘shooting down,’ ‘war,’ and so on. Japanese media keep shouting about ‘besieging’ China. The possibility of the Sino-Japanese friction escalating into military conflict is becoming more and more real."  
"We believe that China must be clear about what we really want to fight for in the conflict over the Diaoyu Islands and what we should insist on in the escalating fight with Japan." 
"War is probably a hurdle that China needs to step over. We need to cross it mentally." 
"We should not have illusions that, once the war starts, that we can ‘destroy Japan.’ We need to do serious damage to Japan and let its losses be ‘slightly bigger’ than China’s. We should fight a protracted war with Japan and make it suffer long-term chronic pain. China will not use the war to ‘destroy Japan.’ China will ultimately crush Japan with the increase in its strength. In fact, what Japan fears most is China’s calmness and lasting determination."

Source: People’s Daily, October 28, 2013 
http://military.people.com.cn/n/2013/1028/c1011-23346411.html

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Study Times: “No Political and Security Conditions for North Korea to Give up Their Nuclear Weapons”

Study Times, the newspaper that the Party School of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party runs, published an article about restarting the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear weapons program. The article criticized the “passive attitude” of the United States, Japan, and South Korea toward China’s effort to resume the meetings. According to the article, there are currently no political or security conditions for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. “Even if North Korea abandoned its nuclear weapons program, the United States would not stand down from the pace at which it is returning to East Asia. Instead, it (a North Korea without nuclear weapons) would cause the U.S. to speed up its strategic advance."

The prerequisite for solving the North Korean nuclear weapons problem, the article asserted, is for there to be an official end to the Korean War and to let the DPRK and the U.S. sign a friendly peace treaty. Under the protection of International law, North Korea would have a stronger ability to resist U.S. hegemonism. The article further listed four conditions that the United States and other relevant countries must provide before there can be a denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

Source: Study Times, October 28, 2013
http://www.studytimes.com.cn:9999/epaper/xxsb/html/2013/10/28/02/02_39.htm

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Defense Ministry: Shooting Down a Chinese Unmanned Aircraft Considered Act of War

People’s Daily recently reported that Geng Yansheng, the spokesperson for the Chinese Defense Ministry, made an announcement about the Japanese position that it would shoot down Chinese unmanned aircraft. Geng stated that China will consider that to be an act of war. He also said China will respond with “decisive” counter-attacks, and no one should under-estimate the “firm will” of the Chinese military. Earlier, the Japanese Defense Ministry had announced that Japan “may consider” shooting down Chinese unmanned aircraft if they “invade Japanese airspace.” Geng claimed that China has never invaded any foreign airspace and that Chinese military training activities in the East China Sea are “lawful normal operations.” Geng also mentioned the fact that, very recently, the Chinese Navy helped save a Japanese fishing vessel.
Source: People’s Daily, October 26, 2013
http://military.people.com.cn/n/2013/1026/c1011-23336424.html
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CRN: Japan Arranged a Maritime Countries Conference

China Review News (CRN) recently reported that Japan organized a conference officially called, “Supporting Emerging Maritime Countries in Building Capacity.” The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs arranged and headed the conference. Thirteen countries attended, including key Southeast Asian countries like the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. CRN also published a commentary suggesting that Japan is apparently establishing a strategy against China to encircle it. Ever since Abe became the Japanese Prime Minister, Japan has been actively developing this strategy. First Japan wholeheartedly supported the U.S. strategy of its “Return to Asia.” Then the Japanese special envoy visited South Korea to repair their relationship. After that, Japan implemented a number of pro-Taiwan policies to further divide the Mainland and Taiwan. A number of strategic moves have also been implemented recently to engage ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) as well as Australia and India. Significant new military spending has been added to Japan’s 2014 budget. The commentary calls Japan a “trouble-maker.”
Source: China Review News, October 20, 2013
http://www.zhgpl.com/doc/1027/7/3/9/102773950.html?coluid=1&kindid=0&docid=102773950&mdate=1020000050
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China News: Xi Jinping Pushes China-Australia Free Trade Agreement

China News recently reported that, on October 17 in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Australian Governor-General Quentin Bryce. Xi suggested that more and more room for cooperation is developing in the China-Australia strategic partnership. Xi called for a breakthrough in the negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement. In addition to that, Xi also suggested active cooperation in such areas as energy resources, infrastructure development, financial services, environmental protection, and the biomedical field. At the same time, Xi indicated that he expects deeper coordination and alignment with Australia in international organizations like the United Nations, the G20, and APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation). Bryce expressed the belief that Australia is a reliable energy resource provider for China and that Australia and China share considerable mutual interests. She suggested that Australia is willing to work with China to reach an agreement in the free trade negotiations sooner rather than later.
Source: China News, October 17, 2013
http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2013/10-17/5393969.shtml
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Li Keqiang: Moving the China-ASEAN Strategic Relationship One Step Forward

Xinhua reported that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivered a speech on October 9 at the 16th China-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Leadership Summit. Li called for a long-term view of their strategic partnership and for strengthening two common political grounds: (1) Improve strategic mutual trust; (2) Deepen cooperation in economic development.

Li also pushed seven key areas of cooperation: (1) Actively work toward signing the Good-Neighborly Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation; (2) Start the process of improving the China-ASEAN free trade zone; (3) Speed up the infrastructure constructions of interconnectivity; (4) Strengthen regional financial and risk management cooperation; (5) Steadily improve maritime cooperation; (6) Enhance security oriented exchanges and cooperation; (7) Intensify cooperation in the areas of culture and technology.

Source: Xinhua, October 9, 2013
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2013-10/09/c_117641820.htm
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The Second Presidium Meeting of the World Media Summit

Leaders and representatives from some world-renowned media organizations met on Thursday in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province.

The leaders and representatives from Xinhua News Agency, News Corporation, The Associated Press (AP), Reuters, ITAR-TASS News Agency, Kyodo News, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Turner Broadcasting System Inc., Google, Al Jazeera Media Network, The New York Times Company, NBC News, MIH Group, and Kasturi and Sons Limited attended the 2nd Presidium Meeting of the World Media Summit (WMS). Executive President of the WMS and President of Xinhua Li Congjun presided over the 2nd WMS Presidium Meeting and delivered the keynote speech.

China’s official Xinhua News Agency initiated the World Media Summit in order to "build a new partnership between traditional media and new emerging media in the 21st century." Xinhua and eight other media organizations including News Corporation, AP, Thomson Reuters, ITAR-TASS, Kyodo News, BBC, Turner Broadcasting System Inc. and Google Inc. co-launched the first WMS, held from October 8 to 10 in 2009.

Source: Xinhua, October 9, 2013.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2013-10/09/c_117642987.htm

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