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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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.
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...
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...
9 Feb 2013
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.
8 Feb 2013
“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.
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...
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”.
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.
The Japanese Coast Guard has released the captain and crew of a Chinese boat who was arrested for illegal fishing southwest of islands claimed by both countries.
Concerns that the increasing cat-and-mouse encounters between planes or patrol ships in the East China Sea will cause an accidental clash are giving impetus to efforts to dial down tensions,...
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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