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168082
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131166
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2014.
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Japanese defence minister Itsunori Onodera on 27 May reiterated Tokyo's call to establish an emergency hotline between the Japan self defence forces (JSDF) and China's people liberation army after two Chinese fighters came within a few dozen meters of two JSDF aircraft: an incident he described as extremely dangerous.
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ID:
154259
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This article reassesses the 2006 and, tentatively, the 2014 reset in Sino-Japanese relations to argue in favour of an increasingly state-centric understanding of Japanese diplomacy. By making use of a narrative account and a variety of primary sources—including personal memoirs, elite interviews, participatory observation, and leaked State Department cables—this article finds that Abe Shinzō’s foreign policy confidante, Yachi Shōtarō, embodied the unmatched influence of government actors in Japan’s political landscape. The article provides a close-up portrait of Yachi, with an emphasis on his preference for geopolitics, strategy, and secret diplomacy. Yachi and the institutional apparatus he represented sought détente with Japan’s main strategic adversary, while pushing for geopolitical initiatives that targeted China. The article concludes by arguing that the Abe administration’s insistence on, and institutionalized practice of, conducting public affairs in secret will likely further strengthen the role of the nation-state and of government actors in Japan, also in light of growing geopolitical tensions in East Asia.
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189325
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Japan's foreign policy on China has generally been successful in handling the delicate balance between the United States and China. Yet, closer analysis shows that Japan's China policy is no weaker than Australia's on issues such as the South China Sea, human rights, and policies on Taiwan. This therefore raises two questions. First, why haven't relations between Japan and China deteriorated as much as they have between China and Australia? And second, why is the Japan-China relationship a stable but fragile one? By modifying the standard strategic triangle model, this article argues that China is pivotal in determining the balance of power in the strategic triangle made up of the United States, Japan, and China. At the same time, the asymmetry of threat perceptions—Japan perceives China as its most significant security concern, while China perceives its greatest security threat as emanating from the United States—gives Japan strategic leverage over China. As a result of China's strategic policies and these asymmetric threat perceptions, relations between Japan and China are ostensibly stable but substantially fragile.
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