News Japan officially terminating ODA to China

[thomas]

Japan's "official development assistance" (ODA) to China ended after 40 years at the end of March. The total ODA amounted to some 3.6 trillion JPY (29 billion USD): nearly 160 billion JPY of grant aid, provision of funds with no repayment obligation, around 3.3 trillion JPY in loans, and about 190 billion JPY of technical cooperation. Japan's ODA was in response to Beijing's declaration to abandon demands for wartime compensation under the 1972 bilateral joint communique. While Japanese ODA to China has supported the nation's growth and strengthened the relationship between the two countries, some questioned the need to continue the assistance over the years.

However, the fruits of Japan's ODA such as this center are not well-known in China. Kazuyuki Suwa, professor of international relations at the University of Shizuoka, said that when he was involved in ODA programs in China as a diplomat, someone removed a sign from a building denoting that it was built through Japanese ODA, suggesting that Japanese aid was not always positively viewed there. In addition, although one of the aims of Japan's ODA to developing countries has been to support their democratization, China didn't follow a path that Japan had hoped it would. The Chinese government crushed student protests at the Tiananmen Square in 1989. More recently, it is showing even more defiance toward criticism from the West about human rights and freedom of speech issues in the country by saying, "Democracy takes different forms."

Japan’s ODA to China ends after 40 years and 3.6 trillion yen | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

 

[musicisgood]

Can you imagine how many low income housing developments that could have built. Which is badly needed now for the elderly here.

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Because China now has more money than they know what to do with due to the world buying their inexpensive products for so many years ; they will become a dangerous world power. They are setting up bases around the world or trying to. They are building up all areas of their military. A lot of bad signs for the future.

 

[musicisgood]

Because China now has more money than they know what to do with due to the world buying their inexpensive products for so many years ; they will become a dangerous world power. They are setting up bases around the world or trying to. They are building up all areas of their military. A lot of bad signs for the future.

True and they just put up their flag in the Solomon Islands. While the US govt. is training the US military about what is a man and a woman and other types of humans exist.

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But the US Congress is on an AWOL vacation of crazy bills that want to build a tunnel under a bridge for turtles can use. ( old news, but nothing has changed )