In October 1933 a formal statement by Nazi German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath officially stated that both Han Chinese and Japanese were exempt from Nazi racial laws. In April 1935 an additional decree stated that racial discrimination cases involving “Aryans of the East” that might jeopardize German diplomatic relations—i.e., Chinese and Japanese—would be dealt with individually. The Nazi German government often exempted most German-Japanese issues in order to avoid a repeat of the 1933 controversies, and in 1934 it prohibited the German press from discussing the race laws when Japanese and Chinese were involved.