News Analysis Japan’s long-term aid to China will end in March this year. The official aid, covering finance, technology, and training, gave a much-needed boost to China’s economic growth over 40 years, which, regrettably, the communist ruling regime concealed from the Chinese people and moved the country even further from democracy and freedom, experts said. The Japanese government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) reported the complete end of the aid, according to a report by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (pdf), a government agency that delivers the bulk of ODA. Earlier in October 2018, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that Japan would end aid to China during his visit to the developing country. Bokudo Mizoguchi, director of the Institute of Asian Culture, History and Politics, told the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times that the Japanese government has been supporting China’s economic development since the 1980s, while it is a great …