CHEN Ching-Chang
   Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University  College of Asia Pacific Studies
   Position   Professor
Language English
Publication Date 2016/01/01
Type Book(Chapter)
Invitation Invited paper
Title East Asia: Understanding the broken harmony in confucian Asia
Contribution Type Single Work
Journal The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace
Journal TypeAnother Country
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Volume, Issue, Page pp.350-362
Authorship Lead author,Corresponding author
Author and coauthor Ching-Chang Chen
Details East Asia is often seen as a region where international relations is still characterized by severe security competition. The sovereignty dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, administrated by Japan but also claimed by China, has been one of the regional flashpoints involving competition for fishery resources and potential oil reserves. In September 2010, a Chinese trawler collided with a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat in waters near the contested islands, and Beijing allegedly delayed the export of rare earth metals to Japan. Tensions continued to build up, especially after the Japanese government bought the Senkakus from their private landlord in September 2012. This move triggered a series of large-scale anti-Japanese demonstrations in major Chinese cities, a slump in Japanese exports to China and in Chinese tourists to Japan, and frequent appearance of Chinese patrol vessels and aircraft in the surrounding waters and airspace.
DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-40761-0_27