I think Curzon should volunteer to help him write it in the future. It looks like babelfish/google automatically translated text from Japanese.

Why does Japan want US soldiers to move back to Guam, and paying $3bn to do so?

Abe won the support of 33 percent of respondents to the telephone survey conducted on randomly selected voters from Monday night through Tuesday… Trailing far behind was Foreign Minister Taro Aso, at 5 percent, followed by Seiji Maehara, head of opposition Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan), with 3 percent.

yes, you are right.

if you have been in beijing, you can see these guards standing outside the various embassies, throughout the winter. I am sure they are recruited from the villages and not highly educated.

but there is also possibility they received explicit instruction to block refugee entrance at all cost, as some might speculate.

but you can’t just invade another country just because they invaded another country. PRC did not have that sort of treaty with Cambodia.

i can try to defend all other armed conflict China was involved, with some justification, but not this one.

some in china (eg Liu Yazhou) said it was a proof Deng demonstrated to the US (right after his visiting US) that China is breaking away from the Soviet Block, and in exchange, the West would help with China’s reform.

you can villianize china as much as you like. but whatever they did in the past, they are learning to play by the rule of international community. there is still the nasty N Korea, which is going to be a problem for both SK and China (but not a problem for Japan, instead NK provides a good excuse for japan to re-arm)

the fact is that there are more business interests that tie these 3 countries(Chn, SK, Jpn) together.

with recent development in japan, china and korea will move closer together, no one can change this (except, maybe koizumi, but he is not going to)

don’t fancy conflict between korea and china, it is not going to happen. not until japan behaves responsibly.

What they did at the Japanese and South Korean missions those past weeks underscores probably better than anything else exactly how they view those two neighbors.

Kushibo,
I could not find a link to the appology, I saw it on TV and mentioned it to some of my Korean friends as being odd. They were all quite embarrassed. The next day, ChangWaDae clarrified that they expressed “regret”Â? over the incident. In this aspect they stepped away from an outright apology, still you have to admit, it is very un-Korean.
Is it possible someone was not misunderstanding the reporting of the incident? I do NOT recall South Korea apologizing for this (and they would have nothing to apologize about), and more important, had they actually done that, the fallout from kowtowing to China over something like that would be felt even today.

I remain incredulous about that version you present, and the articles sun bin is presenting seem more in line with my memory of what happened.

Both Japan and South Korea experienced the same incursion by Chinese police over the space of a week. It underscores for all to see how the Chinese view their neighbors.

“On 13 June, a ten-year old (or 15-year or 13-year) boy entered the South Korean consulate. The boy’s father was dragged out of the building by security guards and then taken away by paramilitary police. The South Korean government accused Chinese security guards of entering the South Korean consulate in Beijing without permission, and hauling the North Korean asylum seeker away. A South Korean diplomat (or two diplomats and a journalist according to other reports) was/were injured during the scuffle. The Korean government immediately lodged a protest with the Chinese Foreign Ministry, saying the incident was a grave violation of South Korea’s sovereignty and demanded that Beijing hand over the detained defector. On the other hand, China blamed the diplomats who scuffled with the police. The incident is expected to worsen the tension between South Korea and China.”

the description differs a little. but it talks about both sides of the story and about a formal protest by the korean.

it seems that it was the overzealous embassy guard (or given specific order to prevent refugee entering) was “doing his job” or “putting a show on N Korea”.

again, this kinds of thing can escalate between hostile country, but can also settle easily.

are you sure you heard korea apologized (not china apologized)?

so here is what i got from businessweek

“FORMAL PROTEST. Something significant is happening here this summer, even if the world doesn’t fully realize it yet. On top of disaffected peasant farmers and angry domestic workers, China now has to deal with a growing North Korean refugee crisis. Nineteen North Koreans have been granted shelter in South Korea’s Beijing embassy. It would have been 20, except that Chinese authorities recently entered the embassy and removed a 56-year-old North Korean who had been inside with his son.

Press reports say the invasion turned into a scrum, with Chinese police beating a South Korean embassy employee as well as a local Chinese woman who worked at the legation. Seoul filed a formal protest with the Chinese ambassador in Korea — an action it usually tries to avoid. “

It seems Korean filed a serious preotest on the event.

it comes down to whether the 2 govts are in amicable relationship and trust each other.

e.g. China protest on US bombing the Belgrade embassy. But had it been the Israel or British emabssy that was bomed. It might have been resolved a lot more amicably.