According to Japanese media outlets, the Japan-China Economic Association has sent a delegation of more than 200 executives from major Japanese firms, the largest business mission on record, to China on Monday. The trip, which will last until September 27, is mainly aimed at paving the way for a meeting between leaders of the two countries. As the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit will be held in November in Beijing, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe considers a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as one of his most important current diplomatic goals. Tokyo has suggested that a bilateral meeting with Beijing is key to easing the escalated tensions and demonstrating to the rest of the world that it is China that holds the initiative.

Japan's business circle has made efforts to facilitate a meeting between the two heads of state out of goodwill. However, everyone should understand that this so-called rhetoric that such a meeting is key to saving the tattered relations between Beijing and Tokyo is a pseudo-proposition.

Abe's cabinet has reversed the causal relationship of its tough China policy and the failure to hold high-level exchanges with Beijing.

We may have to wait until the last moment to see whether Xi and Abe will meet or talk on the sidelines of the APEC summit. Nonetheless, whether they do meet is not a crucial point in Sino-Japanese ties. By directing people's attention to this suspense, Abe intends to make them forget the sabotage he has caused to bilateral relations. And he has attempted to make people accept his visit to the Yasukuni Shrine and his framework of an anti-China alliance as the new starting point of China-Japan relations.

The key to salvaging the strained Sino-Japanese ties lies in the Abe administration changing its provocative policy toward China and showing sincerity to control bilateral differences. Abe has long acted as a double-dealer full of hypocrisy.

In reality, it will be difficult to thaw the frozen Beijing-Tokyo ties in the short-term.

As long as Abe holds power, current Sino-Japanese relations will probably continue in the future. The two countries should ponder how to adapt to the cold peace that is, anyway, better than the cold war and configure a renewed architecture of stability in their relationship.

The two sides should maintain the cold peace and avoid a new cold war and especially a military collision, which requires them to reach a tacit understanding on the code of conduct of their own law enforcement over the Diaoyu Islands.

Economic cooperation and people-to-people exchanges are mutually beneficial, which should be encouraged by the governments of both China and Japan. We should try to reduce the negative impact of cold politics on the development of economic and cultural ties and always keep a sober mind about this.