Japan as China's 'other': China's identity and policy towards Diaoyu/Senkaku islands

Viskupič, Filip

doi:10.14793/pol_etd.11

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“…49 This is less about the strategic value of the islands or potential oil reserves, and more about the humiliating and bitter memory of the Japanese invasion. 50 In Japan, under the leadership of Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister, the LDP won a landslide victory and has been in power since 2009. Right after Abe returned to the position of prime minister, he indicated a more hard-line attitude toward the dispute over the Diaoyu Islands, and proposed a remilitarization policy that could further jeopardize the Sino -Japanese relationship.…”

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The Sway of Geopolitics, Economic Interdependence and Cultural Identity: why are some Asians more favorable toward China's rise than others?

Huang¹,

Chu²

2014

Journal of Contemporary China

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This article identifies the explanatory sources of Asians' perceptions about China's rise. The authors try to decipher the relative importance of individual-level explanatory variables such as socio-economic satisfaction, cognitive schema, and ideology and political values vis-à-vis that of the country-level structural variables such as geopolitical tension, economic interdependence and cultural identity. The empirical findings suggest that the growing perception that China has the most influence in Asia is more related to individual-level demographic variables which are associated with greater interest in political affairs, despite the fact that there is also some evidence that contextual factors related to economic interdependence also matter. A favorable perception of China's influence, on the other hand, is more associated with a less negative orientation on geopolitical and cultural factors, which both involve long-term historical memory and political feelings. Economic interdependence might engender adversarial feelings against China if the level of interdependence is high enough to cause economic vulnerability.

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