Tokyo must come back 'from the brink'
By Zhang Yunbi, Zhou Wa in Beijing and Cang Wei in Nanjing | China Daily | Updated: 2012-09-13 07:45
Beijing will never recognize 'purchase' of Diaoyu Islands
Beijing on Wednesday urged Tokyo to immediately cancel its "purchase" of the Diaoyu Islands as senior diplomats from both countries met.
"China will never acknowledge Japan's illegal grab and so-called actual control of the Diaoyu Islands," Luo Zhaohui, director of the Foreign Ministry's department of Asian affairs, told Shinsuke Sugiyama, director-general of the Asian and Oceania Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, during their meeting in Beijing.
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