JAVGOD wrote:torasan wrote:related? A Chinese spokesman accused Mr Abe of “beautifying aggression”, and called the war criminals remembered at Yasukuni “the Nazis of Asia”.
In other unrelated news the US Ambassador to China suddenly resigned today. Guess he got tired of all that clean air in Beijing.
It had previously been announced.
U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke to resign
November 19, 2013|By Barbara Demick
BEIJING -- Gary Locke, the first Chinese American ambassador to Beijing, said Wednesday he will leave his post early next year to rejoin his wife and three children in Seattle.
The former Commerce secretary and two-term governor of Washington said his reasons for stepping down were purely personal, revolving around the education of his children, two of whom are in high school.
"We wanted our kids to have junior and senior year of high school back in the United States," Locke said in a telephone interview on Wednesday from the Beijing Capital International Airport, where he was about to fly on a trade mission to Kunming in southwestern China.
Locke said he had personally informed President Obama of his decision to resign and that the president was supportive. "He is facing the same situation with his older daughter, Malia, who will be heading off to college in a few years," Locke said. "He is very aware of how fast our children are growing up and how little time we have with them."
Like many of his predecessors in the Beijing post, Locke has served a relatively short term, arriving in August 2011. The 63-year-old ambassador has been a relatively unassuming figure here, best known among ordinary Chinese for his modest lifestyle...
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