JAPAN: China military-diplomatic split over US ships

• Print
• Email

Updated December 11, 2007 21:17:34

A top Japanese diplomat says a split seems to opening between China's military and diplomats in the refusal to allow United States Navy ships into Hong Kong. The ambassador has also given an account of Japan defeating China's opposition to get Australia and India accepted as a member of the East Asia summit.

Presenter: Graeme Dobell
Speakers: Japan's Ambassador to Canberra, Taka-aki Kojima

• Relations between India, Pakistan nosedive
• Japanese prime minister's popularity plummets
• Australia's government accused of copping out on climate change
• Burmese dying of AIDS 'needlessly' warns charity
• HIV infections rising in Indonesia
• Thai protestors allow airlines to move empty planes out
• Police refuse force in Thai standoff
• Security bringing seiges in Mumbai under control