Japanese Team Helps Earthquake Victims In China

The main reason behind China’s apparently belated acceptance of Japan’s offer to send emergency relief workers to an area hit by Monday’s powerful earthquake seems to be an acknowledgement by Beijing of this country’s accumulated experience in such matters. Though the Japanese government presented the offer to Beijing soon after the earthquake occurred Monday, the Chinese government did not immediately take up the offer. On Thursday, however, Beijing unexpectedly chose Japan as the first country from which to accept foreign rescue teams.
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