Abstract
Half a century ago, in November 1962, the People’s Republic of China (the PRC; “China” hereafter) and Japan signed a significant agreement called the Memorandum Concerning Sino-Japanese Long-Term Comprehensive Trade. This accord, generally referred to as the LT Trade Agreement, an acronym of the co-signers—vice minister of the Foreign Affairs Office of the State Council, the supreme executive branch of the Chinese government, L iao Chengzhi (1908–1983), and former minister of the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), T akasaki Tatsunosuke (1885–1964)—was a landmark for Sino-Japanese relations. 1
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Quansheng Zhao, Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy: The Micro-Macro Linkage Approach (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
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Itoh, M. (2012). Introduction. In: Pioneers of Sino-Japanese Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137027351_1
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