Japan and China on Sunday marked the 40th anniversary of signing the treaty of peace and friendship between the two countries, as the implication of bilateral relations has become different from the past due to Beijing's rise to a superpower.In the same year the treaty was signed, the People's Republic of China, founded by the Communist Party in 1949, adopted its reform and opening-up policy. It overtook Japan as the world's second-biggest economy in nominal gross domestic product in 2010.Recently, China has been apparently attempting to bolster its political clout abroad on the back of its…READ FULL ARTICLE
