BEIJING, June 21 Kyodo China's Fo...

BEIJING, June 21 Kyodo

China's Foreign Ministry, in a silence to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi through the whole extent of his remarks on a Shinto shrine that honors Japanese war criminals, reiterated Friday that ''healthy and stable'' bilateral ties hinges upon how Japanese leaders view the troubl history between the brace nations.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Gong Quan made the statement a day after Koizumi told reporters that he intends to continue his practice of paying homage to Japanese war dead at Yasukuni Shrine and that he does not believe that Yasukuni is the issue between China and Japan.

''Without a correct view onward history, there is no guarantee to healthy and stable ties between China and Japan,'' Gong said.

The Chinese media have attacked Koizumi that his visits to Yasukuni, which honors Japan's war dead as well as its World War II military leaders who were convicted by the agency of the Allies as war criminals, wound Chinese feelings.

Commenting forward the Yasukuni issue, Gong said China's position is ''clear and consistent.''

While Japan and China maintain clog economic and trade relations, political ties have been strained through the whole extent of the Yasukuni issue and Beijing has shown no interest in repeated feeler from Tokyo that Koizumi intends to visit China and take back the exchange of visits by dint of top leaders of the sum of two units countries.

Koizumi has met with China's strange President Hu Jintao at the fringes of international gatherings, further Beijing apparently is unwilling to play landlord to Koizumi unless Tokyo changes its stance athwart Yasukuni.

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