Hatoyama was naïve enough to declare publicly his intention of turning the East China Sea into a Chinese led Sea of Fraternity.

Calming the South China Sea

Making good on its claim to the South China Sea could be next.

Tensions between China and its neighbors have escalated in the South China Sea, and between China and Japan in the East China Sea.

Tensions are also running high in the East China Sea, where the two countries dispute sovereignty over a number of islands.

In other words, a few rocks in the South China Sea have put China between a rock and a hard place.

China has added to regional tensions with a foreign policy including advancing territorial claims in the East and South China Seas that would be described diplomatically as assertive, and more bluntly as bullying.

In other words, a few rocks in the South China Sea have put China between a rock and a hard place.

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At the same time, they agreed that the South China Sea was not a Chinese lake, and that it was governed by the UN treaty.

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It is not clear if deflation can be beaten with monetary policy excessive fiscal stimulus and deferred austerity may make the debt unsustainable and the structural reform components of Abenomics are vague. Moreover, tensions with China over territorial claims in the East China Sea may adversely affect trade and foreign direct investment.

Moreover, tensions with China over territorial claims in the East China Sea may adversely affect trade and foreign direct investment.

Indeed, as the eminent historian Wang Gungwu has pointed out, the first maps to claim the South China Sea were Japanese, and were inherited by Nationalist China.

China challenges Japanese control over more than seven square kilometers of islets called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the Diaoyu Islands in China in the East China Sea.

It has certainly added tension to Japan s already fraught standoff with China over their competing claims to the Senkaku Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.

Japan s main worry is that the US may not wish to risk a war with China over territorial disputes in the East China Sea.

Today, with technology making underwater as well as fisheries resources more exploitable in the area, it is impossible to abandon this patrimony. In 2009 2010, some mid ranking officials and commentators even referred to the South China Sea as a sovereign core interest like Taiwan or Tibet.

In 2009 2010, some mid ranking officials and commentators even referred to the South China Sea as a sovereign core interest like Taiwan or Tibet.

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For example, it will not consider resolving in an international forum its dispute with Japan in the East China Sea over the Diaoyu Islands (called the Senkaku Islands in Japan).

The myriad benefits of a Northeast Asian FTA are clear.

Little wonder stretching from Singapore to Taiwan, the South China Sea is the world s second busiest sea lane, with one third of global shipping transiting through it.

That is what the Chinese government has begun to do.

In fact, the largest real estate China covets is not in the South or East China Seas India s Arunachal Pradesh is almost three times larger than Taiwan.

Some favor a permanent expansion of the East Asian Summit.

One reason is the East Asian Model.

Maritime safety and security

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A lot of water saved.

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