China¡¯s top diplomat has urged Japan to ¡°calmly¡± handle last week¡¯s fatal stabbing of a Japanese schoolboy in the Chinese city of Shenzhen and ¡°avoid politicizing or exaggerating the issue,¡± as Â鶹´«Ã½ foreign minister demanded Beijing deal with ¡°unfounded and malicious anti-Japanese¡± social media posts.
Beijing has been trying to prevent the stabbing of the 10-year-old boy, who was attacked on his way to a Japanese school, from spiraling into a wider diplomatic row between the Asian powers, characterizing it as a lone act and downplaying the political implications.
¡°China will investigate and handle the case of the attack on a Japanese student in Shenzhen in accordance with the law, and will, as always, protect the safety of all foreign citizens in China,¡± the Chinese Foreign Ministry quoted Wang Yi as telling his Japanese counterpart, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, during their 55-minute meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday.
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