1. Wednesday Round Up – The Web’s Best on China

    Every Wednesday, The Diplomat’s editorial team gazes out across the web to find our readers the best material involving all [...]

  2. Japan and Taiwan’s Senkakus Play

    In an ordinary week, an agreement about the Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands, a disputed area that has triggered a series [...]

  3. How Beijing Sees Abe’s Return

    An Xinhua editorial that also appeared in the U.S. edition of the China Daily asserts that the impending premiership of Japan’s Shinzo Abe would [...]

  4. Doubling Down in the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands?

    High-ranking diplomats from China and Japan met in Shanghai recently to hold consultations over the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands.  Zhang [...]

  5. Tensions in the East China Sea: Here To Stay

      Tensions over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands are still simmering – with fallout mounting daily. Despite talks between high-ranking diplomats from [...]

  6. What to Talk About: Easing China-Japan Island Tensions

    China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently announced that Luo Zhaohui, Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs, had made an [...]

  7. Something to Talk About, Again

    Earlier, I wrote about why China believes that a past consensus existed with Japan over deferring resolution of the dispute [...]

  8. Something to Talk About in the East China Sea

    The diplomatic stand off between China and Japan over the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands has entered its third week without [...]

  9. A Deadly Brew: Resources, Nationalism, and History

    This appears to be the silly season in East Asia. Various uninhabitable or barely inhabitable islands are again the object [...]

  10. Where China Leads, India Follows?

    China this past week affirmed its status as one of the world’s three leading space powers by sending three astronauts, [...]