1st September 09

Asia Times Online

China sees chance of Japanese remorse
By Jian Junbo

China's leaders, as well as many ordinary Chinese, have long maintained that a major obstacle to better Sino-Japanese ties is how the Japanese government views the facts of Japan's invasion of China and other Asian counties in the World War II-era. From China's perspective, the Japanese government under the LDP's virtually continuous rule since World War II has never shown sincerity in this regard.

Border war rattles China-Myanmar ties
By Larry Jagan

BANGKOK - Myanmar military operations against an ethnic insurgent group have forced tens of thousands of refugees across China's southern border and ratcheted up bilateral tensions between the usually allied neighboring nations.