Recently, more than 2,000 tourists from Shanghai made a visit to Japan and they werewarmly welcomed by the Japanese people. It is a general hope that tourism will play arole in easing the tense China-Japan relations.
However, some Chinese people are strongly dissatisfied with this matter, insulting thesevisitors and even verbally attacking the city of Shanghai.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with visiting Japan. Chinese citizens have the right todecide where to travel and others should not interfere. China’s economy suffers a lotfrom the recent deteriorating China-Japan relations. As the world's second and thirdlargest economies, China and Japan have frequent trade contacts. Containing eachother in economy must lead to loss of both sides while friendly cooperation and mutualbenefit will bring win-win situation. Since Japan "nationalized" the Diaoyu Islands, theChina-Japan relationships have shown the antagonistic trend, which the Chinese sideis also not willing to see. If tourism benefits economic development of both countries, itis definitely in favor of us.
Of course, friendly cooperation requires efforts of the both sides. If Japan arbitrarilydestroys bilateral relations, China will never make a concession, taking any necessarymeasures to safeguard national interests. China will not give up any chance ofmaintaining peaceful and friendly diplomatic relations. As a matter of fact, bothJapanese and Chinese expect friendly people-to-people relationships. The “friction”between Japan and China is mainly attributed to Japanese right-wing politicians.
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