From People’s Daily Online:

The over 2,000-year-old Sino-Japan relations, after going through the process of “strong China and weak Japan” and “strong Japan and weak China”, are now developing toward a relationship between the strong.

At least for the moment, neither side of the two is the “weak”, this situation, when entangled with historical issues, would possibly lead to a situation in which none of the two sides would show its weakness. Because compromise made in the course of representation by any government of the two sides might be seen as a sign of “weakness” by some people, which constitutes quite a big pressure.

Future Sino-Japanese relationship as one between two strong countries would take the following three forms: First, both governments would take a steady and cooperative stand in handling bilateral relations; second, both governments would adopt a tough and confrontation-inclined stance in dealing with bilateral ties; third, one government would take a relatively steady and cooperative stand, while the other government would adopt a tough or relatively tough stand in handling relations between the two countries.