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East China Sea
Is Japan Now Finally a Normal Country?
By Lionel Pierre Fatton
Strategic Bombers: MVP of the Nuclear Triad
By Lt Col Thomas C. Kirkham, USAF
F-35, Osprey Enhanced by Japan’s National Security Strategy
By Zachary Keck
New Type of Great Power Relations For China and Japan: A True Lie?
By Jin Kai
Rationalist Explanations for War in the East China Sea
By Ankit Panda
South Korea Conducts Military Drill in China’s ADIZ
By Zachary Keck
South Korea to Expand Its Air Defense Identification Zone
By Zachary Keck
Time for US and China to Establish Maritime Rules of the Road
By Margaret K. Lewis
The Diplomat's East China Sea ADIZ Analysis Round-Up
By Ankit Panda
China’s Game of Chicken in the East China Sea
Leading from behind at a time when tensions are only mounting would be a tragic mistake.
China May Shoot Down Hostile Airplanes in New Air Defense Zone
“If the subject intruding into the zone disregarded any warning, our pilots have the right to shoot it down.”
US Bombers Challenge China’s Air Defense Identification Zone
Defying orders from Beijing, a pair of B-52 bombers flew over the Senkaku Islands without informing China on Monday.
China Imposes Restrictions on Air Space Over Senkaku Islands
By establishing the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone, China is trying to create new facts in the air.
3 Reasons Senkaku/Diaoyu Diplomacy Should Be Secret
China and Japan are right to insist on secrecy in discussing how to resolve the East China Sea dispute.
Why is China Isolating Japan and the Philippines?
Even as they charm other nations, Chinese leaders have continued tensions with Manila and Tokyo.
U.S.-Japan-Australia: A Trilateral With Purpose?
The three countries have stepped up their rhetoric. Now they need to match that with action.
A MARred Alternative: Offense, Defense and U.S.-China Relations
Why the key to U.S.-China relations can only be found at the level of grand strategy.
Structural Distrust: Undermining a Senkaku/Diaoyu Solution
By Jin Kai
Asia’s Maritime Disputes 101
The Council on Foreign Relations’ new interactive overview of China’s maritime disputes is not to be missed.
Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: A Tense Anniversary
In the year since Tokyo purchased the islands, China and Japan have avoided escalation. Can that continue?
China Flies Bombers and Drone Near Japanese Skies
China is stepping up its provocations ahead of the anniversary of Japan’s nationalization of the Diaoyu/Sekakus.
Air-Sea Battle: A Dangerous Way to Deal with China
Air-Sea Battle seems a particularly risky response to China’s growing capabilities, and of questionable necessity.
John McCain, China Trade Barbs Over Senkaku Islands
By Zachary Keck
China’s “Warfare” Strategies and Tactics
China employs military actions to achieve political outcomes in territorial disputes. Understanding them is important if conflict is to be avoided.