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Article: Keeping their balance; China, Japan and America.(Can China, Japan and America keep their balance?)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2005
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China takes umbrage as America and Japan close ranks
SOME layers of frost from the cold-war years have still to be chipped away in East Asia, but these days it is not the Russians who are prolonging the chill. Take China's bad-tempered reaction this week to a joint statement by America and Japan that they want to "encourage the peaceful resolution of issues concerning the Taiwan Strait through dialogue." Both have said as much before. Even China, which claims Taiwan as its own, says it wants a peaceful solution to the stand-off, though it insists that reunification with the mainland is the only solution and refuses to rule out using force should Taiwan make a ...