The Washington Post (January 27, 2014)
“The major powers of East Asia are increasingly angry with each other. That could bring trouble to the region and, while we’re not paying much attention, to the United States, too.” With a flashpoint centered on the Senkakus or Diaoyus, the “Rocky waters between China and Japan could buffet America.”
Tags: Angry, China, Diaoyus, East Asia, Flashpoint, Japan, Major powers, Senkakus, Trouble, U.S.
Financial Times (November 19, 2013)
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 “to 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 – and that the governments of both nations would then be trapped by their own nationalist rhetoric, making it very hard to climb down.”
Tags: Accidental clash, China, Dispute, Governments, Japan, Military posturing, National Security Council, Nationalist rhetoric, Risk, Senkakus
