The World - News from April 13, 1989
Chinese Premier Li Peng arrived in Tokyo on the first visit to Japan by a Chinese premier in seven years. In talks with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, Li expressed support for Japan’s position in its long dispute with Moscow over the Kurile Islands off northern Japan and welcomed increased Japanese investment in China, a Foreign Ministry official said. Japanese reluctance to invest in China apparently has grown recently because of credit and raw materials problems related to China’s austerity program.
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