Hu visits Japan; PLA Assistant Chief: Regional governments should join hands to meet common challenges; Su Chi appointed as Secretary General of Kuomintang government
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  • Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Japan during the week. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi note that Mr. Hu’s tour had opened up new prospects for the development of strategic relations between the two countries. The two sides issued a six-point statement to promote strategic and mutually beneficial relations. These included consolidating political foundation of bilateral ties, promoting strategic mutual trust, building an overall framework for a long-term, healthy and stable development of China-Japan ties and deepening bilateral strategic and mutually beneficial relations1.

    In other developments, Chen Xiaogong, Assistant Chief of General Staff of the PLA, addressing senior officials from the 27-member ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), expressed the hope that all regional government and defense establishments in the region would join hands to meet the regional security challenges and promote common security. Chen stressed that due to the complex and changing regional and international situation, all defense establishments and militaries had to share the common tasks of maintaining peace and stability2.

    Reports noted that Beijing was on the verge of initiating a project to transmit thermal power resources from the country’s northwest to the Tibet Autonomous Region in the southwest to boost the local economy. Sources indicated that the 1,100-km long electricity transmission line would start from Golmund in Qinghai Province to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet3.

    In Taiwan political developments, Su Chi, a Tamkang University professor who once served as Taiwan’s top China policy coordinator was nominated to serve as secretary general of the incoming Kuomintang government. During Ma’s election campaign, Su was a key strategist, particularly in international and cross-straits affairs4.

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