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Following a high-level economic dialogue between China and Japan, Japan complained that China omitted in her press communiqué references to Japan's appeal for China to raise the RMB exchange rate and to participate in the energy charter. A Chinese FM spokesman said that the communiqué was not a joint statement, but China's own report of the event, and "so it is natural that there is something different in respective communiqués of the two sides". Japan retorted that the communiqué was indeed a joint document.