China is trying to prevent the deadly stabbing of a 10-year-old Japanese boy in Shenzhen from becoming a diplomatic row between Beijing and Tokyo, characterizing it as a lone act and downplaying the political implications.
Wednesday¡¯s incident came amid final negotiations over the lifting of Beijing¡¯s ban on Japanese seafood imports, which has been in place since Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in August 2023.
The stabbing is the second violent incident targeting Japanese school students in China in the span of three months. On June 24, a man attacked a Japanese school bus in the eastern city of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, killing a Chinese bus attendant, who attempted to save the students, and injuring two others.
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