China's President Xi Jinping (L) is welcomed by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy ahead of a meeting at the EU Council in Brussels March 31, 2014. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday it was extremely unhappy with Japan for lodging a protest over comments in Germany by Chinese President Xi Jinping, who recalled Japan's wartime invasion of the city of Nanjing and resulting massacre.
Xi, in a speech in Berlin on Friday, said that such atrocities were "still fresh in our memory" and referred to the Chinese figure of 300,000 being killed.
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