with the zhou enlai talks

Bamboo in China, with the zhou enlai talks, zhou enlai will pass the MAO zedong agreed that the proposed scheme of Chinese the joint statement draft "eight to bamboo into the disclosure. The eight in the seventh item is about war indemnity clause, content is: "in order to china-japan people-to-people friendship between the People's Republic of China, the government dropped to the Japanese requirements for war right."

This clause make bamboo into very as shocked, according to the bamboo into his memories, when he heard this one when "have already feel giddy." He later recalled: "after that, premier zhou enlai asked: 'this is China's consideration, tanaka can accept?" I answered, that still doesn't know, however, in order to realize the sino-japanese normalization we'll try." China's draft by bamboo into back to Japan, Japan to China are prepared to give up to claim benevolence and no warm echo. Instead, the Japanese foreign ministry after the study, puts forward some questions. They think japanese-taiwanese treaty has announced that China to abandon to put forward the right of indemnity by Japanese war, if the sino-japanese joint statement again into the same content, will be thought China still have this right, it is apt to cause the contradiction. Therefore, the Japanese in sino-japan joint statement to negotiate to try to avoid mention for war.

In 1972 September 25th, Japanese prime minister tanaka official to visit China. That afternoon in the great hall of the people in the first summit, China formally say give up on Japan's war compensation claims.