A group of former national security officials from the United States are expected, in a semi-official visit, trying to the tensions between China and Japan over the Diaoyu Islands.
The group, led by former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard l. Armitage, the journey began on Saturday and will meet the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda today and tomorrow, said Chinese officials on Japan's Jiji Press News Agency.
Analysts said the visit could help ease the tensions that have arisen between China and Japan and make it easier for the countries to introduce dialogues, adding that the US is expected to "do what it says it would do".
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has endorsed the visit Armitage and the quasi-official status, said the the New York Times .
The newspaper quoted a member of the group as saying there are no plans to make a concrete proposal for the Chinese and the Japanese, but that the group is prepared to discuss a range of possibilities.
Japan's Kyodo News Agency said the visit aims to prevent prolonged confrontation between China and Japan and the US is expected to take steps the countries relations warm.
Tensions have risen since the Japanese Government has completed an illegal "buy" of the Diaoyu Islands in mid-September.
The US has refused to take a position in the dispute, but said that the Diaoyu Islands fall under the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, a statement that has drawn objections from China.
The u.s. stance on the Diaoyu Islands is related to her "pivot to Asia" strategy and purpose, such as China's influence grows, a new balance of regional power in East Asia, said Shen Dingli, Director of the Centre for American Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai.
But the continuing tensions, especially with the us a threat more military, will only damage to the foundation that the US is on in an attempt to order in the Asia-Pacific region to maintain, Shen said recently.
The US and Japan have planned a drill to simulate reconquest of a remote island of foreign troops. This action will be part of wider Japan and the US maneuvers that start in early November.
AFP reported on Saturday, though, that the Governments threaten to cancel the drill from a fear that it will provoke more anger in China.
China sent ships, planes and helicopters to the East China Sea on Friday, sending them there for a one-day exercise.
Despite his call for a peaceful solution to the row Islands, Japan spared no efforts during Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba visits to France, Britain and Germany last week to plead for his claim to the Islands.
But those on the travel only a cold reaction when they raised the dispute reported Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, saying that none of the three countries visited has taken a position. When you are asked whether the support during the trip was obtained, Gemba responded not directly, only say that each of the three parties in a different situation and no details on the issue can be disclosed, Kyodo reported.
Kyodo said Gemba had high hopes for the tour but found it difficult to support in the countries he visited.
Meanwhile, Tokyo has started to switch to Moscow. During a meeting between Japan and Russia in Tokyo on Friday, the Japanese asked that Russia Show understanding for Japan's stance on the Diaoyu Islands.
Japanese Sankei Shimbun newspaper said that China's presence in the ocean grows and Japan and Russia have a ' shared a belief about China with '.
In a separate development, 64 Chinese crew members aboard a freighter rescued after their boat fire on Saturday night near waters of Okinawa, an official from the Chinese Embassy in Japan told Xinhua on Sunday.
Smoke was first spotted at the stern of the cargo ship on Saturday night. Respond to the emergency situation, the Japanese coastguard sent aircraft and patrol vessels on Saturday evening.
The Chinese crew members were rescued early on Sunday morning, Kyodo News reported. Three of them were slightly injured. Uichiro Niwa, Japanese Ambassador to China, who on Saturday warned that the tensions could Member States shall establish diplomatic relations back before their normalisation, which occurred 40 years ago.
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