China says Beijing and Japan alone should resolve their dispute over contested islands in the East China Sea rejecting what it called a US idea for three-way talks addressing the issue. A foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement that China and Japan should make full use of the various dialogue and cooperation mechanisms in the Asia Pacific region.He said the territorial dispute over the Diaoyu islands is the business of the two nations only. Ma's statement was issued to clarify discussions between Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Vietnam last week. Clinton said in Hanoi that she had told China and Japan that the United States is more than willing to host a trilateral where it will bring Japan and China and their foreign ministers together to discuss a range of issues.