BEIJING - As China faces increasing isolation, with some countries closing off borders over coronavirus fears, an unlikely friend has emerged -- historical arch-foe Japan.
The flight, the fifth of its kind chartered by Tokyo, was met with gratitude on the Japanese embassy's Weibo account, but also concern for Japan's own battle against the outbreak. "Foreign lands separated by mountains and rivers, we share the wind and moon under the same sky," the boxes say, quoting a Tang-dynasty text."The epidemic is temporary, but friendship endures," said foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, praising photos seen online of Japanese pharmacies with signs saying "Let's go, China!"The virus has killed more than 2,100 people and infected more than 74,500 in China since it first emerged late last year.
China sees Japanese politicians' periodic visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine honoring convicted war criminals as a sign of aggression. "Japan is extremely vulnerable because of her intense people-to-people and economic exchanges with China." "It's become clear that if the Chinese economy is hurt, the Japanese economy receives an impact from it and vice versa."Relations between Asia's two biggest economies have warmed in recent years after suffering in 2012 when Tokyo "nationalized" disputed islands claimed by Beijing.
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