Patrick deHahn
Reporter studying in New York. I cover international news around the clock, anything from politics, foreign policy, war and conflict, protest, human rights to breaking news. I drink lots of coffee.
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A great, great explainer at TomDispatch
We must adhere to the path of peaceful development, but can never abandon our legitimate interests, and can never sacrifice core national interests. No foreign country should ever nurse hopes that we will bargain over our core national interests, and nor should they nurse hopes that we will swallow the bitter fruit of harm to our country’s sovereignty, security and development interests. China will take the peaceful the path of peaceful development, and other countries must also take that path.
China’s incoming leader Xi Jinping comes in strong, will not budge on disputed territory.
A Chinese plane was spotted over the hotly debated islands Thursday. The plane breached and violated Japanese airspace as Tokyo claims control of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, currently in the middle of a historical territorial dispute.
From the Associated Press: Japan levied a formal protest later [Thursday], but China said it was merely carrying out a normal operation. Here’s more.
The value of the islands has never been in their aesthetics but in history and geopolitics: what control of the islands says about the relative power of Asia’s two economic giants, one rising and the other in what many see as a slow decline.
New York Times’ Martin Fackler takes a trip to the area of the disputed island chain between China and Japan in the South China Sea
A strong Economist cover for a great story I’ve been following for a month or so now on China-Japan relations over a set of disputed islands.
