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Japan, China agree to dialogue over tensions

LOOKING AT HISTORY At a meeting in Kyoto, Japanese officials and their Chinese counterparts said they would study their common history in a bid to warm icy tensions

AFP , KYOTO

But Li was also unsparing on another issue -- Taiwan -- after Japan and the US declared the island claimed by China a common security concern.

"I would like to say calmly to Japan: The Taiwan issue is a domestic affair and a matter of life or death to us. It is dangerous to touch China's matter of life or death," Li was quoted as saying by the Japanese official.

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