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Japan broke consensus with China on Diaoyu Islands: U.S. expert


http://en.youth.cn   2012-09-23 08:29:00

  The Japanese government's bid to "nationalize" the Diaoyu Islands had broken its consensus with China to shelve the territorial dispute, a U.S. expert said Thursday.

  "First of all, I think that Japan's actions have been key in explaining what China has done," said Kenneth Lieberthal, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who had been the senior director for Asia at the National Security Council in the Clinton administration.

  Speaking at a symposium at the Washington-based think tank, he also admitted it was a "huge mistake" when U.S. government officials made comments that suggested Washington did have a position on the dispute.

  "I think that does us no good. And occasionally, some comments like that have come out," Lieberthal said. "I think that they are regrettable."

 

 
source : Xinhua     editor:: Zhang Yan
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