神马文学网China cuts tourist visits to Japan, tensions rise
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China cuts tourist visits to Japan, tensions rise
08:35, September 20, 2010 
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stumbleupon Japan is paying for its inflexible foreign policy by stubbornly keeping the detention of a Chinese fishing trawler caption, as Beijing has cut a series of bilateral talks and threatening to substantively reduce Chinese tourists' travel to Japan.China's official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday that Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Wang Guangya "made solemn representations" to Japanese Ambassador Uichiro Niwa Sunday evening to express strong anger and protest over Tokyo's prolonged illegal detention of a Chinese citizen.
Tensions between the two eastern Asian countries have escalated dramatically, since Japan illegally detained Chinese trawler captain Zhan Qixiong on September 7, accusing him of "obstructing Japanese officials' public duty" when his fishing boat was chased, intercepted and taken by Japan Coast Guard patrol vessels.
Beijing authorities, supported by an overwhelming public opinion throughout China, have warned of tough counter-measures after a Japanese court Sunday extended the detention of Zhan.
"China demands that Japan immediately release the captain without any preconditions," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said yesterday in a press release, emphasizing that China viewed the detention as “illegal and invalid”.
"If Japan clings obstinately to its own course and insists on making one mistake after another, China will take strong countermeasures and all the consequences should be born by the Japanese side," the spokesman said.
China has suspended ministerial and provincial-level bilateral exchanges with Japan, halted talks on increasing flights between the two countries and postponed a meeting about coal with Japan, the Xinhua report said.
"The scale of Chinese tourists visiting Japan has been seriously affected," the report added.
Japan's Kyodo news agency reported that the trawler captain's detention had been extended until September 29. This was the second time an extension was granted. A Japanese court first approved an extension on September 10. It said that Japanese prosecutors can hold Zhan for a total of 20 days before deciding whether to take "legal action".
China has repeatedly demanded Japan free the captain and, in protest, has cancelled talks with Japan over natural gas reserves in the East China Sea, which is originally scheduled for this month.
Beijing has also sent marine surveillance ships to strengthen law-enforcement activities in relevant waters to safeguard China's maritime rights and interests, China's Foreign Ministry said over the weekend. China's law-enforcement ships have also been dispatched to cruise in the area and protect Chinese fishermen and their properties.
Asked to confirm media reports that China has transported materials to Chunxiao oil and gas field in the East China Sea, and may carry out maintenance operations there, the Foreign Minsitry said China “possesses full sovereign and jurisdictional rights over Chunxiao and China's activities there are completely reasonable and lawful”.
Huang Dahui, a professor of Japanese studies at Beijing's Renmin University of China, told the Global Times in an interview, saying that some politicians in Japan may not feeling good about it, and choose to take a tough stance to irritate China's Government and Chinese people.
"Japan may also be considering how to forge allies with other countries such as the United States to limit China's influence in the Asia-Pacific region," Huang said.
However, many Chinese experts say that as Japan's economy tilts to depend more on China's growth, Tokyo's hard-line foreign policy towards Beijing is going to anger Chinese government and Chinese people. If China decides to import less from Japan, and more from others, Japan's present struggling economy will get hurt further, they say.
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