China-Japan Relations Strained Again After Snub By China's Vice-Premier....

China continues with its bizarre behavior snubbing a scheduled meeting with the elected Japanese leader. It appears as if China scheduled this meeting just so the Vice-Premier could rebuff the leader in another example of juvenile behavior by the non-elected myopic leaders of China.

Vice-Premier Wu Yi has cancelled a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that had been billed as a way to resolve bilateral tension and warned Tokyo it must work to turn around ties.

Wu cut short her visit to Japan by one day, keeping appointments with business leaders but saying pressing duties kept her from meeting Koizumi, Japanese officials said.

Tokyo Television said the reason was his visits to the Yasukuni shrine.

I wonder who should be more embarrassed about this behavior....the Japanese, whom have gotten snubbed by the silly mandarins in Beijing or the Chinese, who's silly mandarin leaders bizarre behavior gets reported to the rest of the world.

Seemingly, the meeting was billed as an attempt to repair relations but China's leaders, I guess, are more interested in school-yard juvenile antics than actually adult bi-lateral relations with other nations.

All of this over the Yakasuni Shrine? Koizumi reportedly last visited there on January 1st 2004. Some Chinese-Japanese relations chronology here and here. I have reported on apologies, the shrine and shrine visits before, here.