The security dimension of Sino-Japanese relations: Warily watching one another

Asian Survey

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 296-310

  Xinbo, Wu ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; GEOPOLITICS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; SECURITY THREAT;

CHINA; JAPAN;

EID: 0033903961     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3021134     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. For a description of the conservative trend in Japan's internal politics, see, among others, Wu Jinan, Japan: Standing at the Threshold to the 21st Century (Shanghai: Shanghai Education Press, 1998), pp. 61-65.
2. Michael Green and Benjamin Self, "Japan's Changing China Policy: From Commercial Liberalism to Reluctant Realism," Survival 38:2 (Summer 1996).
3. Xin Bei, "No-War Tenet Rocked," China Daily, August 14, 1999, p. 4; and Feng Yingzi, "What Law Does Japan Want to Revise?" (in Chinese), Jiefang junbao (PLA daily), October 31, 1999, p. 6. The 1992 PKO bill presently in force permits the SDF to participate only in the humanitarian and logistical parts of such operations.
4. Xin Bei, "No-War Tenet Rocked," China Daily, August 14, 1999, p. 4; and Feng Yingzi, "What Law Does Japan Want to Revise?" (in Chinese), Jiefang junbao (PLA daily), October 31, 1999, p. 6. The 1992 PKO bill presently in force permits the SDF to participate only in the humanitarian and logistical parts of such operations.
5. Zhu Feng, "Bills Related to the U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation Guidelines and Trends in Japan's Policy," Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies, no. 9, 1999, pp. 14-15.
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7. In August 1999, Japan and the U.S. signed a memorandum of understanding on research for a sea-based system that uses satellites to pinpoint incoming missiles and shoot them down. A "basic outline" of the research had already been established. "U.S., Japan OK Anti-Missile Deal," Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo bureau, August 17, 1999.
8. Zhang Guocheng, "Japanese Cabinet Secretary Talks Wildly, Claiming that Japan-U.S. Alliance Covers Taiwan," People's Daily, August 19, 1997, p. 6; and Yu Qing, "Japanese Liberal Party Chief Talks Wildly, Claiming that 'The Surrounding Areas of Japan' Includes China," People's Daily, January 16, 1999, p. 3.
9. Zhang Guocheng, "Japanese Cabinet Secretary Talks Wildly, Claiming that Japan-U.S. Alliance Covers Taiwan," People's Daily, August 19, 1997, p. 6; and Yu Qing, "Japanese Liberal Party Chief Talks Wildly, Claiming that 'The Surrounding Areas of Japan' Includes China," People's Daily, January 16, 1999, p. 3.
10. See, for instance, Yan Shi, "Japan's SDF Expands Vigorously," Global Times, October 1, 1999, p. 21.
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12. Wu Jinan, Japan: Standing at the Threshold to the 21st Century, pp. 248-52; and Pan Zhengqiang and Xia Liping, World Military Trends (Beijing: National Defense University Press, 1994), pp. 278-80.
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14. Asahi shinbun, October 27, 1995 (evening edition).
15. Tokyo shinbun, March 2, 1996.
16. See, for instance, Wang Hongbin and Ni Feng, "U.S.-Japan Alliance and Security in Asia-Pacific Area," Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies, no. 3, 1998, p. 7.
17. Xu Yang, "Cui Urges Japan: Be Prudent," China Daily, June 11, 1997, p. 1.
18. Hideo Sato, "Japan's China Perceptions and Its Policies in the Alliance with the U.S." (paper prepared for conference on America's Alliances with Japan and Korea in a Changing Northeast Asia, A/PARC, Stanford University, August 1997), p. 12.
19. Yoshihide Soeya, "Normative Constraint versus Structural Imperatives" in Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences, ed. Muthiah Alagappa (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), p. 204.
20. Hisahiko Okazaki, "China: Function of Japan-U.S. Alliance," Daily Yomiuri, August 28, 1995.
21. This analysis draws on discussions with some Japanese China specialists during a visit to Japan by the author in March 1999.
22. Okazaki, "China."
23. This also draws on the author's discussion with some Japanese experts of international studies in March 1999.
24. Sato, "Japan's China Perceptions," p. 14.
25. With regard to China-Japan bickering over the history issue, see, for instance, Beijing-Tokyo negotiations in preparations for Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to Japan in November 1998. Seiichiro Takagi, "In Search of a Sustainable Equal Partnership: Japan-China Relations in the Post-Cold-War Era," Japan Review of International Affairs 13:1 (Spring 1999).