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日本将延迟关于支付更加进一步的日元贷款的一个决定对中国由于二国家的恶化的联系。
首要政府发言人Shinzo Abe 说的日本不会给贷款在本会计年度期间。
领带在中国和日本之间恶化了由于列在能量储备和第二次世界大战历史。
日本的援助向中国财政不再是重大的但延迟进一步付款将被观看象高度象征性, BBC 记者说。
Abe 先生说决定没有意味政府是切除或冷冻援助对中国但东京需要更多时刻从事什么它称"各种各样的情 况" 在中日事理。
东京支付了在亿万美元之外在日元贷款中国基础设施项目过去二十年。
但它借近年来下降了当中国的经济增长- 日本给了中国正义86bn 日元($735m) 在贷款在2004 个财政年度- 并且观察员说这个决定不太可能影响本项目。
象征性作为援助是, 标志非常事关在二个国家的多刺的关系, BBC 的乔纳森头说在东京。
到有争议的Yasukuni 战争寺庙的总理小泉□一郎的持续的参观在东京incensed 中国的领导, 有效地结冰的高级外交联络。
政客在Koizumi 先生的宽宏民主党之内相信他们必须显示他们是愿意站立由中国压力决定为了包含北京的力量在这个 区域, 我们通讯员认为。
所有这摆姿势使它难使二个国家获得进展在其它争执, 象他们重叠要求对疆土和石油和天然气储备在东中国海, 他说。
双方有不本月初达成协议关于东中国海问题尽管谈话第四个圆。
同时在星期三俄国总统Vladimir Putin 暗示, 管道运载的俄国油能被修造通过中国, 可能的失望向东京, 哪些为对俄国的能源供应的更加伟大的通入游说。日本和中国并且争夺注意在华盛顿。 美国, 哪些保留主要军事力量在亚洲, 是日本一个耐久盟友和有对于中国的一个矛盾的态度- 热切两个鼓励和包含它。
但有极限对在处理中国日本紧张的美国的角色- 不最少因为他们源于华盛顿装不影响于罐中亦不忽略的根本国内政治转移, Marcus 说BBC 外交通讯员乔纳森。Japan is to delay a decision on paying further yen loans to China because of the two countries' worsening relations.
Chief government spokesman Shinzo Abe said Japan would not give any more loans during the current fiscal year.
Ties between China and Japan have deteriorated due to rows over energy reserves and World War II history.
Japan's aid to China is no longer significant financially but delaying further payments will be viewed as highly symbolic, a BBC reporter says.
Mr Abe said the decision did not mean the government was cutting off or freezing aid to China but Tokyo needed more time to work on what it called the "various situations" in Sino-Japanese affairs.
Tokyo has paid out billions of dollars in yen loans for Chinese infrastructure projects over the past two decades.
But its lending has declined in recent years as China's economy has grown - Japan gave China just 86bn yen ($735m) in loans in the 2004 fiscal year - and observers say this decision is unlikely to affect current projects.
Symbolic as the aid is, symbols matter a great deal in the two countries' prickly relationship, says the BBC's Jonathan Head in Tokyo.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's continued visits to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo have incensed China's leaders, effectively freezing high-level diplomatic contacts.
Politicians within Mr Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party believe they must show they are willing to stand up to Chinese pressure in order to contain Beijing's power in the region, our correspondent says.
All this posturing makes it difficult for the two countries to make progress on other disputes, like their overlapping claims to territory and oil and gas reserves in the East China Sea, he says.
The two sides have failed to reach agreement on the East China Sea issue despite a fourth round of talks earlier this month.
Meanwhile on Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin hinted that a pipeline carrying Russian oil could be built through China, a likely disappointment to Tokyo, which has been lobbying for greater access to Russia's energy supplies.
Both Japan and China also compete for attention in Washington. The United States, which remains the major military power in Asia, is a long-standing ally of Japan and has an ambivalent attitude towards China - eager both to encourage and contain it.
But there are limits to the US' role in managing China-Japan tensions - not least because they stem from fundamental domestic political shifts which Washington can neither influence nor ignore, says BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus.
