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BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - China-Japan relations involve a number of old and new problems, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Tuesday (June 7), adding that the difficulties and challenges faced by bilateral ties should not be ignored. Mr Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, made the remark in a phone conversation with Mr Takeo Akiba, secretary-general of Japan's National Security Secretariat. Noting that China-Japan relations have reached an important point in history, with this year marking...
