CHINA, JAPAN TO PROTECT ECONOMIC TIES, SAYS BANKING CHIEF

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March 6, 2013

SYDNEY - Despite drumming rhetoric on both sides in their dispute over the Senkaku-Daioyu Islands, Japan and China have agreed to keep their differences out of economic activities, according to Hiroshi Watanabe, Chief Executive of Japan Bank of International Co-operation (JBIC). He says Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, and China’s President, Xi Jinping, are making efforts to improve relations.