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Tokyo and Beijing must step back from the brink
September 18, 2012 / Minxin Pei
Financial Times
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With their economies struggling and domestic politics in disarray, the last thing leaders in China and Japan need now is a foreign policy crisis. Sadly, that is what they are getting into. The dispute between Beijing and Tokyo over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands – uninhabited barren rocks in the East China Sea – is entering a more dangerous phase. In Tokyo, right wing politicians compete to be tough on China. In China, anti-Japanese protests have swept dozens of major cities, causing Japanese businesses and factories to close in fear for their employees’ safety.
Minxin Pei is a Non-Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a professor at Claremont McKenna College.
