China Attempt To Play The Japan Card Is Doomed To Fail

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, October 26, 018. (Kyodo/via Reuters)

Michael Auslin, National Review: China Plays the Japan Card

Rapprochement between Asia’s two biggest powers is partly a reaction to Trump.

The heralded meeting last week between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was touted by both leaders as opening a new era in Sino–Japanese relations. Asia’s two most powerful nations have been locked in a cold war for nearly a decade, largely over the contested Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, but more broadly because of Japan’s discomfiture with China’s rise and Beijing’s concern over Tokyo’s military modernization.

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WNU Editor: This "relationship" is not going to work. There are few if any common interests, and with their poisonous history coupled with both countries using nationalism to prop up their governments, little if any motivation to change.