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April 29, 2005
The Tomorrow of Yesterday
An interesting tidbit on contemporary Sino-Japanese history:
Xu Dunxing, former Chinese ambassador to Japan, says that when then vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping went to Tokyo to attend the exchange of authorizations for the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship on 23 October 1978, he responded to a Japanese reporter's question as follows: “We call the ‘Senkaku Islands’ the Diaoyu Islands, and we have different names and different viewpoints on these islands,” “We believe that the wise course of action is for both countries' governments to avoid this problem. Putting it aside is not crucial, and there is no problem to wait for ten years,” “The next generation will be smarter than us, and will eventually find a mutually acceptable way to resolve this problem in the future.”
In some ways, I agree with Deng that the future generations will be better at this, but that generation is at least eighteen years late.
Posted by Kelvin at April 29, 2005 11:49 AM
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