It would be a mistake to view the South China Sea dispute between China and Japan as a simple territorial gripe over lines on a water-logged map.
The two nations have long been hostile, and China’s threats last year to ‘nuke it’ if Japan allies itself with Taiwan during a Chinese ‘totally peaceful unification’ attack hasn’t exactly settled the region’s nerves.
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