1978 : au temps de l’amitié sino-japonaise

Abstract

Jean Esmein proposes us, in the perspective of the thirty years of the signing of the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty in 2018, to return to the circumstances of the reconciliation between the two powers of East Asia even though since the end of In the 1980s their hesitant relationships went into the hands of cold actors. He gives us excerpts translated and summarized from the memoirs of Sonoda Sunao, Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1978 (Fukuda Government) who had received the Prime Minister’s mission to make peace. He was negotiating with Huang Hua, the Chinese Foreign Minister, but he discovered by talking with Deng Xiaoping that China wanted to move away from the USSR and was seriously considering an alliance with Japan. Deng confided to him.