Sino-Japanese relations

The relationship between the two largest economies in Asia has been marred throughout the 20th century due to territorial and political disputes including Taiwanese sovereignty; the invasion of China by Japan in the second world war and Japan’s subsequent refusal to acknowledge the extent of its war crimes; territorial disputes surrounding the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands and associated fishing rights and energy resources; and Japanese-American security co-operation.

A more assertive China is here to stay

19 Mar 2013

China's assertive response to the tug of war with Japan over the disputed Diaoyu Islands has strong domestic support. Nationalistic sentiments have been surging. Memories of Japanese atrocities...

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China military officials admit radar lock on Japanese ship, says report

18 Mar 2013

Senior Chinese military officials have admitted for the first time that a frigate locked its radar on a Japanese destroyer during the two nations’ spat over disputed islands, Kyodo News agency...

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What China can learn from Japan

26 Feb 2013

Years ago, I had the honour to be at the same dinner table as a famous Indian scholar. I candidly asked him the following question: India has so many excellent economists at Harvard, MIT, Chicago...

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Japan coastguard says more China ships in disputed waters

24 Feb 2013

Japan said three Chinese surveillance ships entered its territorial waters off disputed East China Sea islands on Sunday, hours after one of Beijing’s fisheries patrol boats sailed into the zone...

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China ships in disputed Diaoyu waters as tension runs high

10 Feb 2013

Four Chinese ships were spotted on Sunday in disputed East China Sea waters, Japanese officials said, as Tokyo considered disclosing video footage and pictures as evidence of a Chinese frigate’s...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Hong Kong needs to get real on national interest

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Jake Van Der Kamp

How jailing old ladies on suspicion aids Hong Kong's anti-crime image

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Tom Holland

It's risk-off again as troika plays with fire in Cyprus

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Abe's wrong-headed move to revise the constitution

Shinzo Abe, Japan's new prime minister, is going full speed ahead with his plan to rewrite the country's pacific and war- renouncing constitution to his own nationalist image.

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Shinzo Abe demands apology from China over radar lock

“We wish China to acknowledge it (the radar lock), apologise for it and make efforts to prevent it from recurring,” Abe told the BS Fuji TV station, Jiji Press news agency reported.

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Rational leaders can still resort to war

Plato likens reason to a charioteer driving two opposing horses, one unruly and base, and the other spirited and bold. Spinoza thinks violence occurs when passion overwhelms reason. In our own...

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TERRITORIAL DISPUTE

Japan's Abe condemns China radar-lock as ‘provocative’

The hawkish prime minister, who took office late December following a landslide win in elections, described the radar-locking as “unilateral provocative action by the Chinese side”.

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TERRITORIAL DISPUTE

Japan summons China envoy after ships enter disputed waters

Tokyo summoned China’s envoy on Tuesday in protest after what it says was another incursion into its territorial waters around islands at the centre of a bitter dispute with Beijing.

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DIPLOMACY: ANALYSIS

Shinzo Abe's men can heal rift with China

The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government, ousted in December, was hampered by relative inexperience in dealing with China and a lack of direct contact with its counterparts in Beijing,...

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