CRI听力:Hiroshima Deserves Attention, But Nanjing Should Never Be Forgotten: FM

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that Hiroshima deserves attention, but Nanjing should never be forgotten.

Wang made the remarks when asked to comment on U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima, Japan.

Wang stressed that victims deserve sympathy but aggressors should never shirk their responsibility.

On December 13th, 1937, Japanese troops initiated the massacre in the then China's capital city of Nanjing , killing some 300-thousand people over a period of 40-days.

Barack Obama has on Friday become the first serving US President to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima since American forces dropped a nuclear bomb there in 1945.

The visit has attracted attention from around the world, despite repeated statements from the US side that President Obama would not apologize for the attack, which claimed an estimated 140,000 lives.

The president laid a wreath at a peace memorial and met with service personnel at a military base, where he paid tribute to those who lost their lives in the Second World War and praised the modern-day US-Japan relationship.

For more on this, CRI's Nick Lanigan spoke to Jia Xiudong, Senior Research Fellow from the China Institute of International Studies.