Territorial Dispute

27 Feb 2013

President Benigno Aquino asked a royal clan leader in the southern Philippines to order his followers to withdraw as soon as possible from Malaysian land they claim as their own, warning yesterday...

Japan stages rally over disputed islands with South Korea

22 Feb 2013

Japan held an annual rally on Friday over Tokyo’s claim to a set of tiny islands controlled by South Korea, which has been at the centre of a long-standing territorial feud.

Japan's Abe seeks Obama's support in dispute with China

22 Feb 2013

Abe will be keen to get the reassurance of strong US support during a visit to Washington that comes amid an escalating row with China over disputed islands, and in the same month that North Korea...

Chinese leaders must keep a brash and reckless PLA in check - or risk war

13 Feb 2013

Some four years before the outbreak of the first world war, British author and politician Norman Angell published The Great Illusion, a best-seller that argued that war was obsolete between...

Shinzo Abe demands apology from China over radar lock

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.

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Russian fighter jets breach Japan airspace, says Tokyo

Two Russian fighter jets violated Japanese airspace on Thursday as Tokyo scrambled its own planes in response, in the first such incident in five years.

Japan PM pledges to resolve Russia island row

Japan’s prime minister said on Thursday he wants to find a “mutually acceptable solution” to a decades-old territorial row with Russia and sign a long-delayed peace treaty with Moscow.

Shinzo Abe's men can heal rift with China

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,...

For some, sabre-rattling over the Diaoyus/Senkakus not in vain

A total change of direction has occurred on the Diaoyus/Senkakus dispute. On January 18, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed opposition to "any unilateral actions that would...

Legal route to resolve South China Sea dispute a political minefield

The legal process begun by the Philippines to challenge claims by China to the South China Sea surprised the region. International arbitration is allowed under the UN Convention on the Law of the...

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Shinzo Abe should seize chance for Diaoyus dialogue

Changes of leadership in China and Japan provide a window for initiatives to cool rising tensions over the Diaoyu Islands, and put relations between the world's second- and third-largest economies...