Tuesday, September 18, 2012

China "Ups" Tensions Against Japan



China Warns It Is Ready For 'Further Action' Against Japan Over Islands -- The Telegraph

China has warned it may take "further action" against Japan, as Chinese ships briefly entered waters around an island chain the two countries are quarrelling over.

Mass protests have taken place in dozens of Chinese cities since Japan announced it had nationalised the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – islands last week.

The protests were fanned on Tuesday by the 81st anniversary of the Mukden Incident, a staged bombing on a Japanese railway that gave the Imperial Japanese army a pretext for invading China in 1931.

Largely forgotten in the West, in China the anniversary is remembered as the National Day of Humiliation.

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More News On Chinese - Japanese Tensions

Protests Escalate China-Japan Rift -- Wall Street Journal
Anti-Japan Protests Reach Fever Pitch As Panetta Visits Beijing -- Time
Japan: Chinese Ships Enter Territorial Waters -- Voice of America
Islands anger fires China protests -- Sydney Morning Herald
China 'could take action against Japan' over disputed islands -- The Independent
China Warns of ‘Further Actions’ as Anti-Japan Protests Resume -- New York Times
Beijing both encourages and reins in anti-Japan protests, analysts say -- Washington Post
Scores of Japanese Stores Close Over China Protests -- AP
Japan digs in, suspends services to China -- Christian Science Monitor
Japan-China row: Media worried about economic impact -- BBC
Japan takes cautious tone in dispute with increasingly assertive China -- Christian Science Monitor
China and Japan: Old Rivals, New Tensions -- defpro
How a remote rock split China and Japan -- Hilary Whiteman, CNN

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