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06.19.18Strange Bedfellows: Trump Trade Fight Brings Japan and China Together
Wall Street Journal
President Donald Trump’s tough line on trade with China has finally given Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe something to agree with Beijing about.
Media
11.15.17
What Happened When Trump Met Xi?
An edited transcript of “ChinaFile Presents: What Happened When Trump Met Xi?” a discussion of Donald Trump’s five-country trip to Asia with Daniel Russel, Bonnie Glaser, and Orville Schell, moderated by Susan Jakes. The panel took place at Asia...
Viewpoint
11.06.17
On the Road with Trump in Asia: Day One, Tokyo
Many are fearful that Xi Jinping’s ability to awe his visitors with over-the-top manifestations of pomp and ceremony will turn Donald Trump to Jell-o. But having watched Trump arrive in Japan yesterday on the first leg of his five-country trip, it’s...
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09.15.17How Strongmen Co-Opted Democracy
New York Times
A wave of strongmen rulers has been elected, many of whom have clear non-Western identities. This list includes Shinzo Abe of Japan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Narendra Modi of India, Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, as well as China’s Xi Jinping.
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06.15.17Are China and the United States Headed for War?
New Yorker
Professors, pundits, and journalists weigh in on a heated topic.
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03.10.17
Jane Perlez: Chinese Foreign Relations in a New Age of Uncertainty
from Sinica Podcast
Jane Perlez has been a reporter at The New York Times since 1981. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for coverage of the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has reported on wars, diplomacy, and foreign policy from...
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01.12.17Japan And China Are Competing To Win Over The Philippines
Forbes
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is pushing away the United States in favor of its geopolitical rival China. But the man in office still likes Japan.
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01.08.16
The Storm Beneath the Calm: China’s Regional Relations in 2016
On the surface, 2015 came to a close in a moment of relative tranquility after a turbulent year for China’s neighborhood. But the calm is misleading: the optics of regional diplomacy have become increasingly detached from the reality of the...
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10.06.15Japan's Abe Says TPP Would Have Strategic Significance If China Joined
Reuters
"It would contribute largely to our nation's security and Asia-Pacific regional stability, if China joined the system in the future."
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09.30.15China Says Arrests Two Japanese for Spying
Reuters
Japan's Asahi newspaper said one man was taken into custody in China's northeast province of Liaoning near the border with North Korea and the other in the eastern province of Zhejiang near a military facility.
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08.24.15Japan Refuses to Take Part in China’s ‘Victory Day’ Event to Mark End of War
Guardian
Shinzo Abe has decided against visiting Beijing for the event, partly to protest against China’s regional military build-up.
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04.30.15China and South Korea Criticize Japanese Prime Minister’s Speech in US
Guardian
Shinzo Abe denounced for not repeating previous PMs’ apologies for Japan using sex slaves during second world war.
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04.29.15Obama Accuses China of Flexing Muscle in Disputes with Neighbors
Reuters
Obama said a strong U.S.-Japan alliance should not be seen as a provocation to China.
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04.29.15Commentary: South China Sea No Showcase for U.S.-Japanese Alliance
Xinhua
As long as Japan refuses to face WWII atrocities, the world community will never loosen the screw.
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04.29.15China on My Mind: U.S.-Japan Visit Mostly About Beijing, State Media Says
Wall Street Journal
U.S.-Japan talks mainly served to throw into relief concerns about China.
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04.22.15Xi Jinping of China and Shinzo Abe of Japan Meet Amid Slight Thaw in Ties
New York Times
The meeting signaled a continued slight warming in otherwise frosty relations between Asia’s two top economies.
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04.20.15Shinzo Abe and Japan’s History
New York Times
But Japan cannot credibly help the U.S. to counter China in Asia if it seeks to repudiate criticism of its past.
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03.19.15China, Japan Start First Security Talks in Four Years
Reuters
Step aimed at thawing ties plagued by the legacy of Japan’s wartime aggression and a territorial dispute.
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11.10.14Frosty Meeting at APEC Could Be Start of Thaw Between China and Japan
New York Times
The meeting between President Xi Jinping of China and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan lasted only 25 minutes, less than half the time usually given to formal encounters between the leaders of two nations.
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09.02.14
The Danger of China’s ‘Chosen Trauma’
When we see young Chinese people at a state event collectively chant, “Do not forget national humiliation and realize the Chinese dream!” we may be tempted to dismiss it as yet another piece of CCP propaganda. But we may also find ourselves...
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07.28.14China’s Leaders Draw Lessons From War of ‘Humiliation’
New York Times
The lessons from the twilight of the Qing Dynasty have become all the more pointed today, when Chinese-Japanese ties are tenser than they have been for decades, and President Xi Jinping of China has embarked on an ambitious program to overhaul the...
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07.28.14The Diplomatic Battle Between China and Japan is Taking a Latin American Road Trip
Quartz
When Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe appeals to officials and business people in Central and South America this week, his hosts will be comparing him to another recent visitor: Chinese president Xi Jinping.
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07.17.14Japan’s Opposition Leader Visits Beijing, Vows Candid Talks
China Daily
Banri Kaieda, who arrived in Beijing on July 15, told journalists that he would discuss with high-ranking Chinese officials ways to break the impasse in ties and smooth out disputes China has with current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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07.01.14Is Japan Targeting China in Next Move?
Xinhua
The Japanese government’s endorsing of a reinterpretation of its pacifist Constitution on Tuesday for the right to collective self-defense is a dangerous move that will lead to security worries for other Asian countries.
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05.30.14Abe’s Attempt to Corner China Through Diplomacy
Diplomat
Japan is reaching out to Southeast Asia and seeking to control the discourse around its new security policy.
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04.25.14The Shadow over Obama’s Asia Trip: 3 Ways China Scares the U.S.
Washington Post
The Balance of Power in the Pacific; China’s global footprint; and friendship with Russia
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04.24.14Obama: U.S. To Defend Japan In Territorial Disputes With China
NPR
President Obama is in Japan for the start of his four-nation Asia visit. The trip aims to assure U.S. allies that they're not forgotten, even as China gets more bullish with its neighbors.
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03.11.14Mr. Abe’s Dangerous Revisionism
New York Times
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s use of revisionist history is a dangerous provocation for East Asia, which is already struggling with China’s aggressive stance in territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas.
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03.05.14Nurturing History’s Miseries
Wall Street Journal
The lurch to the political right by the Japanese government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe so fraught with danger because it plays into poisonous memories of Japan in China.
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02.08.14Tangling with China
New York Times
The international community should insist China abide the rule of law and heed the United Nations arbitration ruling where tensions around China’s claims in the South and East China Seas are concerned.
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02.06.14Commentary: Philippine Leader's Senseless Attack Against China Smells of Amateurish Politician
Xinhua
A Xinhua writer fiercely responds to Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III’s comparison of China to Nazy Germany.
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01.30.14United Against China?
New York Times
Japan invests in India, and the two countries prepare for potential hostility from China.
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01.28.14Anxiety Rising Over Relations Between Japan and China
New York Times
A "stealth war" between the second and third largest economies sparks fear amongst international businesses and leaders.
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01.24.14Abe Comparing China to Pre-World War One Germany Fuels Tensions
Businessweek
China said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was evading Japan’s “history of aggression” by comparing Sino-Japanese relations to those of the U.K. and Germany prior to World War I.
Conversation
01.21.14
Time to Escalate? Should the U.S. Make China Uncomfortable?
How should the United States respond to China’s new level of assertiveness in the Asia Pacific? In the past few months as Beijing has stepped up territorial claims around China's maritime borders—and in the skies above them—the Obama...
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01.18.14China, Japan Slug It Out in World’s Press
Associated Press
Escalating disputes between Japan and China are spilling onto newspaper opinion pages around the globe as the rivals try to sway attitudes abroad and placate nationalist fervor at home.
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01.08.14Why are China and Japan Accusing Each Other of Being Voldemort?
Christian Science Monitor
Ill-tempered media exchanges between the Chinese and Japanese ambassadors to London invoked the universal cultural icon to embellish attacks over islands in the Asia-Pacific.
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01.02.14Beijing Turns Cold Shoulder to Japan
Xinhua
Beijing has declared Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “not welcome” by the Chinese people and said Chinese leaders won’t meet him.
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12.26.13Japanese Premier Visits Contentious War Shrine
New York Times
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan visited a contentious Tokyo war shrine early on Thursday, provoking swift condemnation fromChina and South Korea, both victims of Japan’s wartime aggression.
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12.10.13Abe Calls for China Talks Citing 2006 Trip as Tensions Rise
Bloomberg
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping after an escalation in bilateral tensions since China’s declaration last month of an air-defense zone that overlaps with Japan’s over the East China Sea.
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08.21.13The Shadow from Yasukuni
Project Syndicate
Around this time of year, speculation in Asia always runs high as to whether Japan’s prime minister or other prominent politicians will visit the Yasukuni Shrine to honor, among others, more than a thousand indicted war criminals.
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08.05.13Japan Looking for Ways to Restart Top-Level Meetings with China
Asahi Shimbun
Japan and China have not held high-level meetings since the Japanese government placed the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea under national ownership in September 2012.
Conversation
08.01.13
How Dangerous Are Sino-Japanese Tensions?
Sino-Japanese relations do not look promising at the moment. Obviously, the Diaoyu-Senkaku dispute is not the only factor in play but it does focus nationalist passions on both sides. Yet both countries are capable of wiser conduct if their leaders...
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07.31.13Ties With Japan Face ‘Grim Test,’ China Naval Researcher Writes
Bloomberg
“Japan, of course, wants to have it both ways; it wants to share in the dividends from China’s economic growth, while maintaining a hardline stance in its relations with China,” Xing wrote. “It is therefore extremely unlikely that there will be any...
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04.30.13China, Japan Island Spat Resurfaces
Wall Street Journal
Japan and China faced off anew over a group of disputed islands after visits to a controversial war shrine by Japanese politicians rankled Tokyo’s neighbors, raising concerns that tensions may be returning after a period of relative calm.
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02.26.13U.S. Media Misquote China-related Reports, Causing Concerns
Xinhua
Well-known U.S. newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post have raised the eyebrows of many Chinese recently in their two questionable reports on sensitive China-related topics.
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01.26.13Xi Calls to Solve “Sensitive Issues” in China-Japan Ties
China Daily
Top leader Xi Jinping met with Japanese envoy Natsuo Yamaguchi, the highest-level contact between the two countries since tensions over the Diaoyu Islands spiked in September.
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01.26.13New Komeito, LDP at Odds Over How to Improve Ties with China
Asahi Shimbun
New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi's meeting on Jan. 25 with Chinese leader Xi Jinping highlighted the differences emerging within the ruling coalition over how to improve ties with Beijing.