Geo-political causes of Sino-Japanese tension

From: China Daily | Date: February 24, 2006| Author: Feng Zhaokui | Copyright information

Problems in the Sino-Japanese relationship can be attributed to a number of factors in the global geo-political arena.

First, the strategic need to cope with the "Soviet threat," which was shared by Japan, the United States and China, no longer existed after the Soviet Union's disintegration and the collapse of the Soviet-US confrontational bi-polar framework in the early 1990s. It was this shared strategic interest that served to cement the political relations between China and Japan ...

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