Financial Times (November 19, 2013)
2013/ 11/ 20 by jd in Global News
Are Japan and China on a collision course? As the Senkaku dispute festers and both countries move to create National Security Councils, it still remains difficult βto believe that either China or Japan actually wants a war. The bigger risk is that military posturing around the islands will lead to an accidental clash β and that the governments of both nations would then be trapped by their own nationalist rhetoric, making it very hard to climb down.β
Tags: Accidental clash, China, Dispute, Governments, Japan, Military posturing, National Security Council, Nationalist rhetoric, Risk, Senkakus
