{"id":24450,"date":"2008-09-23T04:31:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T11:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=24450"},"modified":"2008-09-23T04:31:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T11:31:30","slug":"china-avoids-direct-comment-on-new-japan-leader-aso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/09\/china-avoids-direct-comment-on-new-japan-leader-aso\/","title":{"rendered":"China Avoids Direct Comment On New Japan Leader Aso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE48M4UF20080923?sp=true\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China avoided commenting directly on the election of hawkish <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taro_Aso\">Taro Aso<\/a> as Japan&#8217;s new leader, with a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman saying on Tuesday only that good ties were in the interests of both countries.<\/p>\n<p>An outspoken nationalist, Aso won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership vote on Monday, succeeding Yasuo Fukuda, who had focused on improving long-strained ties with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Aso, a former foreign minister, has been wary of China and wants Japan to wield more regional clout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Reuters: China avoided commenting directly on the election of hawkish Taro Aso as Japan&#8217;s new leader, with a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman saying on Tuesday only that good ties were in the interests of both countries. An outspoken nationalist, Aso won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership vote on Monday, succeeding Yasuo Fukuda, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,100],"tags":[7707,2606],"class_list":["post-24450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-politics","tag-japan-relations","tag-taro-aso","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China Avoids Direct Comment On New Japan Leader Aso<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/09\/china-avoids-direct-comment-on-new-japan-leader-aso\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China Avoids Direct Comment On New Japan Leader Aso\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Reuters: China avoided commenting directly on the election of hawkish Taro Aso as Japan&#8217;s new leader, with a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman saying on Tuesday only that good ties were in the interests of both countries. 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