To judge by some commentary in the Chinese media, an outside observer might think war with Japan to be imminent.
“The Chinese military could win a war over the Diaoyu islands in half an hour,” Major General Zhang Zhaozhong, a Chinese military scholar, was quoted as saying last week.
Chinese hawks are not the only ones raising the spectre of a military clash between Asia’s two largest economies. Since Tokyo infuriated Beijing last September by nationalising some of the disputed Senkaku islands, known as the Diaoyu in China and Taiwan, tension escalated.
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