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Is An Armed Conflict Looming Between Japan And China?
Saturday, August 18, 2012 8:32
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As Japan and China exchange rhetoric over disputed territories, we explore the possibility of military engagement.
Japan has deported 7 of the 14 Chinese activists who were arrested on Wednesday for landing on an island in the centre of a regional territorial dispute.
As the activists were being questioned on Japan’s Okinawa island, some media reports suggested that their deportation might defuse the tension between Asia’s biggest economies.
At the heart of the territorial dispute is a chain of islands under Japanese control that is also claimed by Taiwan.
