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If descriptions of nature were diplomacy then Sino-Japanese relations are well on their way to flowering. The ice has been broken, to then be gently thawed and it is now watering what is heralded as a“warm spring”tour of Japan by Chinese President Hu Jintao as he embarks on his longest state visit to any nation since tak-ing office.