The China-Japan Conflict over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands

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The China-Japan Conflict over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands is written by Anna Costa and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 135138970X (ISBN 10) and 9781351389709 (ISBN 13).

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.