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China and Japan are stirring up an old animosity | Isabel Hilton
In a dispute over islands, both countries are using false histories and present ambitions to stoke a dangerous nationalismOld quarrels take new forms when the world's power balance shifts. The Japanese and Chinese nationalists squaring up over disputed islands in the East China Sea are in the grip of geopolitical rivalries, jockeying for position on the new map that China's rise has created. Their deeper animosity goes back into the misuse of their troubled, shared history.When China's climb out of the economic trough began in the 1990s, the US was...
Published By: The Guardian - Tuesday, 21 August, 2012