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New Japanese leaders should rethink relations with China

(People's Daily Online)

08:28, December 20, 2012

The 46th House of Representatives was elected in Japan at 2:40 p.m. local time, except for a few seats in legislative assembly.

It has no much difference with the previous polls that the Liberal Democratic Party occupies 293 seats in the House of Representatives and is about to take office.

There are two choices in Japan’s policies on China all the time, namely either "head-to-head" or "face-to-face." In order to win ever-declining support rate, the leaders of the Democratic Party including Yoshihiko Noda chose to play hardball with China, freezing the China-Japan relations at the 40th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral diplomatic relations, and were thrown out by Japanese public.

Frankly, China is worried about the Liberal Democratic Party's taking power and stays vigilant against the hardline speeches made by the hawkish politicians of Liberal Democratic Party, even though the "practical actions" are sometimes different from the "campaign words" according to Western political science. In fact, the Liberal Democratic Party had paid the price because of the hardline policy on China during the reign of Junichiro Koizumi and also witnessed painful lessons learned by the Democratic Party after being thrown out of power. Will Shinzo Abe learn the lesson after coming to power again?

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