Analysis: with High Economic and Political Risks, the Crisis Between China and Japan Raises Old Ghosts in Asia

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On the last day of October, the recent Japanese prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, met with the president of China, Xi Jinping, at the margins of a group of leaders in Gyeongju, South Korea. On the occasion, they defended a “strategic and mutually beneficial relationship”, in addition to the expansion of “building and stable links”. With such threats, few could expect that, one week later, Beijing and Tokyo would be in the midst of a series of dipl…