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"History textbook issue is not Japan's internal affairs": FM Spokesman

@ Sat 9 April 2005 9:22 AM HKT by Tom Legg

From the pages of People's Daily Online comes this story on China's FM response to Japan over "the textbook crisis".

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in Beijing Thursday, "Japan's newly-approved middle school history textbooks try to exculpate Japan's militarism and severely hurts the feeling of its victims. It is not Japan's internal affairs."

If there is one thing the Chinese Foreign Ministry are masters of, it is the splitting of fine hairs to determine what is or is not "an internal affair".

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