China welcomes mutual visits between India and Japan and
wants to "actively develop" relations with both countries, Foreign
Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Wednesday as Japanese Prime Minister
Yoshihiko Noda continued his state visit to India.
China's reaction to Noda's trip
to India, which followed his two-day visit to Beijing, has been watched
closely.
Hong said at a regular news
conference that, during Noda's visit, China and Japan reached an important
consensus on promoting a mutually beneficial strategic partnership.
"Both China and Japan
think peaceful coexistence, mutually beneficial cooperation and common
development are in the interests of the people of the two countries, and the
peace, stability and development of the region," Hong said.
He said Sino-Indian relations
had maintained a good development momentum.
"We think China and India
should maintain political mutual trust, coordination and cooperation in
economic, trade and international affairs," he said.
"China is willing to
actively develop bilateral relations with Japan and India. We welcome the
mutual state visits between Japan and India and their peaceful efforts in
promoting regional development," Hong said.
Noda's visit to India came
shortly after the first round of talks in Washington last week between the
United States, India and Japan, and an India-Japan defense ministers' meeting
in Tokyo in November.
Zhou Yongsheng, a professor of
Japanese studies at China Foreign Affairs University, said since Noda assumed
office, Japan's policies on counterbalancing China have become more apparent,
and his visit to India to make their ties closer is one of these measures.
Noda's cabinet has "formed
a strategy of containing China by shaping an arc from Northeast Asia to
Southeast Asia, with the US as a backup force", Zhou said.
The Press Trust of India
reported that Noda said at a luncheon meeting that, besides regional
cooperation, India and Japan are forging ahead with cooperation on political,
security and economic issues.
According to the Indian
newspaper The Statesman, in the meeting between Noda and his Indian counterpart
Manmohan Singh later in the day, the situation in the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea and nuclear cooperation between India and Japan would be
discussed.
In an article published in Japan's
major English-language newspaper The Japan Times, Professor Brahma Chellaney
from the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi said Japan and India need to
establish close naval cooperation as the balance of power in Asia will be
determined by events principally in East Asia and the Indian Ocean.
Lu Yaodong, director of the
department of Japanese diplomacy at the Institute of Japanese Studies of the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said Japan has claimed its efforts in
building alliances are to "tackle the uncertainty of the rise of regional
power, which actually means China".
"China has a clear policy
of good-neighborliness and harmony in Asia," Lu said.
Japan's efforts to enhance
alliances with regional countries are unreasonable and unnecessary, and could
lead to instability in the region, he said.
India and Japan have agreed to
a $15 billion currency swap line, a Japanese official in Delhi said on
Wednesday, in a positive move for the troubled Indian rupee.
The two countries previously
had a $3 billion swap arrangement that expired in June, said the official,
speaking on condition of anonymity.
Cheng Guangjin
China Daily
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