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Japan Gets China Treatment: Joint Communiqué Unilaterally Changed By Beijing
By Paul Midler | December 13, 2007
Well, it looks as if business people working with China are not the only ones to suffer from contract manipulation by the Chinese.
Japan signed a joint communique with Beijing earlier this month only to discover that the Chinese quietly deleted two terms from the contract without notifying the other side that they had done so. I’ve actually had this done to me when working with Chinese lawyers, and it is one very strong argument for not letting attorneys for the other side draft any agreements if it can be done by your own people. While this sort of unilateral change is done all the time in China, this kind of alternation is “unthinkable from the viewpoint of customary international practice, and inexplicable.” From Commentary:
“The Chinese deleted two references in the jointly-approved communiqué. The first omitted statement noted that Japan expressed its hope that Beijing would increase the value of the renminbi. The other deleted reference relates to China’s participation in the Energy Charter Treaty. The Japanese government delivered a formal protest on Friday.”
This latest development comes just as historians have uncovered evidence that suggests that the Nanjing Massacre was preceded by a genocide that was even greater. Hat tip to Pan Asian Biz:
U.S. archives just researched have unveiled that the Japanese massacred more than 500,000 Chinese BEFORE entering Nanjing and killing 300,000 more. A telegram from then US ambassador to Germany reads - “Today the news from the Far East is worse than ever and I have read yours and Secretary Hull’s statement as to Japanese brutality. The Japanese Ambassador here boasted a day or two ago of his country’s having killed 500,000 Chinese people.”
Developments between Japan and China will continue to prove interesting in the coming years.
Topics: China |
December 13th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
This from today’s “South China Morning Post”
Japan donates 2.61m yuan
GANSU - The embassy of Japan in China has donated 2.61 million yuan to build schools and upgrade county infrastructure in poverty-stricken areas in Gansu, Xinhua reports. The money will go towards building two primary schools and one junior high, and the installation of methane gas equipment in Tongwei county. ##
Why is it the Japanese feel it necessary to build schools for thankless ingrates (not the Gansu kids, but rather the China gov’t as a whole) while the PLA are using billions to fine hone missiles aimed at Japan and “officials” continue to fleece public purses???
December 14th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
It is the Japanese fault that these children are without schools. That is the reason for the Japanese responsibility in donating the money. It is necessary for the PLA to spend the money on missiles and such so that PLA’s can defend China against Japanese invasion. Furthermore, Chinese government must make a small fraction of Chinese rich, through trasnfering of government funds to government officials. That’s why the government do not have sufficient money to build schools for the children.
That’s why all Chinese must thank the Chinese government for their care, and condemn the Japanese for invading China.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:46 am
Makes sense now Larry. Have a Merry Christmas.