Sino-Japanese Power Politics Might, Money and Minds
This book is about Japan-China power politics in the military, economic and propaganda domains. The post-2012 standoff over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands has unveiled the antagonistic quality to Sino-Japanese relations, with an important addition: a
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Giulio Pugliese • Aurelio Insisa
Sino-Japanese Power Politics Might, Money and Minds
Giulio Pugliese War Studies Department King’s College London London, United Kingdom
Aurelio Insisa History Department University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong
ISBN 978-1-137-59553-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59554-6
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PREFACE
Between October 2012 and September 2014, I conducted fieldwork in Tokyo for my PhD at Cambridge University on leadership in Japan’s China policy. The timing of my fieldwork turned out to be a mixed blessing, as on one side, some of the policymakers I came to interview, Abe Shinzō and his foreign policy team, unexpectedly jumped back to power. However, at the same time, the period witnessed both a new dynamism in Japanese, and Chinese, foreign and security policy, and an all-time low in Sino-Japanese political relations since the normalization of diplomatic relations in 1972. China immediately hardened its position following Japan’s nationalization of three disputed islets in the East China Sea in September 2012, thus inaugurating the bilateral standoff. Abe’s comeback by the end of 2012 and the transition to a Xi Jinping presidency in China exacerbated Sino-Japanese rivalry. Timing was unfortunate for Sino-Japanese relations, but a boon for those doing research on that topic. Indeed, the Sino-Japanese standoff coincided with im
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