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China and Japan: Economic Partnership to Political Ends
Katherine G. Burns
China and Japan are friendly neighbors separated only by a strip of water, and the people of the two
countries have forged a profound friendship through their exchanges for more than two thousand
years Culturally our two countries have a lot in common that makes it easier for us to communicate
with each other and help increase our mutual understanding and trust.
Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Speech to the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, 1992
To the Japanese, China is a foreign country…
Kato Shuichi, Professor of International Relations
Ritsumeikan University, 1974
apan and China are the giants of Asia. The future of their relationship is absolutely critical to the peace
and security of Asia. That relationship is complex: for over two millennia, beginning in the third
century BC, the pair has maintained cordial relations. For fifty years during that period, from 1894 to
1945, they were at war. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, both struggle with the legacies of war and
peace as they seek to define their roles in a rapidly changing world.
Economic relations have played a pivotal role in their relationship, solidifying the foundation on
which political relations are built, providing a balm in times of trouble, and marking the way to formal
diplomatic relations. This essay explores the interaction of economic and political forces in Sino-
Japanese relations. It is divided into five sections corresponding to five distinct phases of the
relationship. In the first section, I focus on the building blocks forged by China and Japan over two
millennia of interaction until the outbreak of war in 1894. I show how initial trading relations between
the mainland and the archipelago blossomed into cultural and political exchange in a process which
brought massive learning and chang ...
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