Q: The Indian magazine "News behind the News" recently carried an article entitled "Japan and India should join hands to deal with China". What is your comment?

A: It is China's unswerving policy to develop friendly relations and cooperation with all countries in the world on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence. For years the friendly relations and cooperation between China and its neighboring countries have been constantly enhanced. This is the fact known to all. However, the Indian magazine "News behind the News" regardless of the fact, carried the article "Japan and India should join hands to deal with China" concocting the so-called "China Threat" in an attempt to damage the friendly relations between China and its neighboring countries. This is doomed to failure. Facts have and will continue to prove that China's development have never posed threat to any other country. On the contrary, China' development will only conduce to peace, stability and development of the region and the world at large.