China demands Japan to stop political manipulation on China's internal affairs, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday, in response to the release of a joint statement involving China's foreign policy issued by the U.S. and Japan after their "2+2" talks in Tokyo a day earlier.
"In disregard of China's grave concerns, Japan and the U.S. have blatantly interfered in China's internal affairs on issues related to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Xizang, smeared and attacked China on maritime issues, manipulated group politics with a Cold War mentality, and stoked bloc confrontation, seriously undermining regional peace and stability and the security interests of other countries," Lin said at a press conference in Beijing.
"China is firmly opposed to this and has made serious démarches to Japan through diplomatic channels, demanding the Japanese side to establish an objective and rational understanding of China, stop political manipulation on China's internal affairs, stop stirring up trouble and making provocations on maritime issues, stop drawing forces outside the region into stoking division and confrontation in the region, earnestly follow the path of peaceful development, and win the trust of its Asian neighbors and the rest of the international community with concrete actions," Lin said.
China demands Japan to stop political manipulation on China's internal affairs
China demands Japan to stop political manipulation on China's internal affairs
China's railway is expected to handle 13.2 million passengers nationwide on Thursday, the 10th of this year's 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, as the railway passenger traffic has been running at a high level for several days.
The railway transported 13.32 million passengers on Wednesday, the ninth day of the travel rush.
By 20:00 Wednesday, the country's railway ticketing platform 12306 had sold a total of 271 million tickets for the Spring Festival travel period which runs from Jan 14 to Feb 22.
To ensure smooth travel during the Spring Festival, local railway departments are adding trains to meet the surging demand.
China Railway Xi'an Bureau Group in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, is expected to handle 455,000 passengers on Thursday, with the local railway authorities planning to add 98 extra trains, including 12 overnight high-speed trains to the metropolises of Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou.
China Railway Nanning Bureau Group in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is set to run 690 passenger trains on Thursday, including an additional of 101 bullet trains.
Qingdao railway station in east China's Shandong Province will operate passenger trains to Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, for the first time.
The Spring Festival travel rush, known as Chunyun, is the largest annual human migration in the world as tens of millions of Chinese people return to their hometowns to celebrate the Lunar New Year with their families.
The Spring Festival falls on Jan 29 this year, ushering in the Year of the Snake.
China's railway expected to handle 13.2 mln passengers on 10th day of Spring Festival travel rush