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China and Japan: Relations on the rocks | The Economist - 0 views

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      jason adkison on 30 Aug 12
       
      Nice, creative, title
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      jason adkison on 31 Aug 12
       
      thesis: The new Chinese leadership might be heading for a bumpy start due to tension with Japan as Chinese protest the contested islands of East China Sea, the media ignites the flame and, most importantly, the army fuels the fire.
  • Japan over ownership of the Senkaku islands (or Diaoyu islands, as the Chinese call them) in the East China Sea. This has escalated recently, with tit-for-tat landings on the uninhabited rocks by activists from both sides, as well as a close approach by a group
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  • high-tech industries, for two months.
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      More background for the reader.
  • The rapid growth over the past couple of years of social media, especially Twitter-like microblogs, complicates the government’s efforts.
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      jason adkison on 30 Aug 12
       
      not only Japan-China relations, but the role of media could mount an unexpected reaction by the Chinese. Including economic sanctions.
  • over 50,000 respondents said no.
  • A poll on Sina Weibo, the most popular microblog service, asked whether there should be a boycott. More than half of
  • Tong Zeng, a veteran campaigner in Beijing on Japan-related causes, says the authorities fret too much. Most demonstrators are middle-class people, he says, who prefer to protest at weekends or on public holidays and eschew violence (he receives frequent calls from the police telling him to stay away altogether).
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      jason adkison on 30 Aug 12
       
      More tangible evidence that gives the COUNTER-ARGUMENT that the protestors are mild mannered middle class Chinese that the government should not fret.
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      jason adkison on 31 Aug 12
       
      Thesis: The new Chinese leadership might be heading for a bumpy start due to tension with Japan as Chinese protest the contested islands of East China Sea, the media ignites the flame and, most importantly, the army fuels the fire.
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Op-Ed Contributor - Diplomacy That Will Live in Infamy - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The one who had the greater effect on Japan’s behavior was Theodore Roosevelt — whose efforts to end the war between Japan and Russia earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Roosevelt knew that Japan coveted the Korean Peninsula as a springboard to its Asian expansion.
  • “maintain the strictest neutrality,” but privately he wrote, “The sympathies of the United States are entirely on Japan’s side.”
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  • “All the Asiatic nations are now faced with the urgent necessity of adjusting themselves to the present age. Japan should be their natural leader in that process, and their protector during the transition stage, much as the United States assumed the leadership of the American continent many years ago, and by means of the Monroe Doctrine, preserved the Latin American nations from European interference. The future policy of Japan towards Asiatic countries should be similar to that of the United States towards their neighbors on the American continent.”
  • In a secret presidential cable to Tokyo, in July 1905, Roosevelt approved the Japanese annexation of Korea and agreed to an “understanding or alliance” among Japan, the United States and Britain “as if the United States were under treaty obligations.”
  • an unconstitutional act.
  • Anglo-American policy of imperialistic exploitation and to sacrifice themselves to the prosperity of the two nations.
  • “favorable opportunities were gained by opening the war with a sudden attack on the main enemy fleet.”
  • “I was thoroughly well pleased with the Japanese victory, for Japan is playing our game.”
  • No one in Oslo, or in the United States Congress, knew the truth then.
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    James Bradley's thesis on TR and links to WW2
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Japan Keeps Its Cool | Foreign Affairs - 0 views

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      Goes boldly against the Economist
  • The Economist boldly asserted that Abe's "scarily right-wing" cabinet is full of "radical nationalists," which "bodes ill for the region." According to this narrative, Tokyo will look to further contain China and North Korea and take a tougher diplomatic stance with South Korea and Russia.
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