China Protests Erupt As Japanese Group Lands On Disputed Island [Bloomberg]
East China Sea flashpoint escalates after Japanese group lands on Senkaku/Diaoyu islands just after Chinese activists landed on August 15 to symbolically mark the date Japan surrendered to Allied...
View ArticleDiaoyu slowly drifting into crosshairs [Global Times]
East China Sea flashpoint: does this Global Times editorial shape or reflect Sino-Japanese tension? The otherisation of Japan in the us and them narrative has painful etchings in the Chinese mind....
View ArticleAnalysis: China’s aircraft carrier: in name only [Reuters]
Reuters: Not-yet combat ready aircraft carrier stirs reality check for Chinese military power projection in the East China Sea? Outspoken retired Major General Luo Yuan reconfigures hardline tact by...
View ArticleThe Inconvenient Truth Behind the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands [New York Times]
From the New York Times: putting the knee jerk to rest? The right to know is the bedrock of every democracy. The Japanese public deserves to know the other side of the story. It is the politicians who...
View ArticleChina anger as Japan buys island & signs US missile defence deal [Russia Today]
Perspective of Sino-Japanese tension from China’s northern neighbours with a view from Japan-based James Corbett, editor of the Corbett Report website as US missile defence deal is signed – in name to...
View ArticleChina Auto Buyers Shun Japanese Cars in Islands Tiff [Bloomberg Businessweek]
Businessweek: Sino-Japanese socio-economic faceoff manifests in auto industry over the Diaoyu/Senkaku spark + How not all foreign carmakers are yet to leverage on this gap. Found in the comments...
View ArticleFour-party academic forum on Diaoyutais opens in Taichung [Focus Taiwan]
Running since 2009 and jointly organised by the National Chung Hsing University and Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this is one of Taiwan’s approaches to the East China Sea dispute – academic...
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