March 2, 2015

"China and Japan are poised to launch a formal mechanism to manage local maritime and aerial crises, a former Chinese defense official said Monday, the eve of the opening of a key political session in the country.

The mechanism, agreed upon in June 2012 but shelved amid peaking territorial disputes between China and Japan, will be launched "soon" so long as Japan does not create new obstacles to the improvement of bilateral relations, said Qian Lihua, a political advisor and general who used to head the foreign affairs office under the Ministry of National Defense."

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