BEIJING China said Wednesday it would be difficult for Li Peng, the country's second most powerful politician, to travel to Japan because of an ongoing row over a visit by former Taiwan president Lee Teng-Hui. "It is difficult for Li Peng to visit Japan in the near future," a Foreign Ministry spokesman told AFP. The general affairs office of the National People's Congress has informed the Japanese diet of this decision, he said, without elaborating.

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