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Millions click "no" to Japan's UNSC bid
Widespread opposition to Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council has seen millions take part in an online vote.
petitions in three major Chinese portals -- Sina, Sohu ease -- surpassed 10 million signatures by Tuesday afternoon, reported Xinhua.
, however, said over 16 million, including about 170,000 overseas voters, had taken part by Sunday evening.
More than 99 per cent of izens who voted at -- Chinese youth online -- opposed Japan's bid for a permanent UNSC seat.
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"I wrote down my name on Sina several days ago," said Amy Li, a human resource manager who works in Beijing, Tuesday. "Under the requests of my mother and grandmother, I also signed signatures for them," he said.Li said he is from Northeast China, the first region invaded by the Japanese soldiers during War of Resistance against Japan (1937-45).In a letter written to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Tong Zeng, chairman of the China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, said he wants the UN chief to listen to the opposition calls from the mass of people in China, Republic of Korea and other Asian countries, which were invaded by Japan during the war.
"I have never seen such a large-scale signing activity in which so many people are united in their opinions in the nearly 10 years the has been developing in China," Chen Tong, editor-in-chief of popular portal , was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
Students and citizens sign up on a banner to oppose Japan's bid for a permanent seat of the United Nations Security Council in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province March 27, 2005. They urged Japan to face up to its wartime history. [newsphoto]
KMT(中国国民党) leader: Taiwan people seek peace
People from both sides of the Taiwan Straits will benefit from closer economic ties, Chiang Pin-kun江丙坤, vice-chairman of the Taiwan-based Chinese Kuomintang Party (KMT), said on March 29th.
Chiang, who arrived in Nanjing s