TY  - GEN
AU  - Anna Costa
TI  - China-Japan Conflict over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Useful Rivalry
SN  - 9781351389716
PY  - 2017///0927
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Routledge
N2  - This book examines the foreign and security policies adopted by China and Japan since the 1970s in their competition over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. It charts the development of a dispute that has become a potential flashpoint for conflict between the two countries. The book explains that while increasing nationalism in both China and Japan helps to fuel and sustain the dispute, a key factor is that the leaderships in both countries find competition over the islands to be a convenient vehicle supporting their wider approach to foreign and security policy, which is becoming increasingly assertive and potentially belligerent
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