In contrast to Dreyer’s historically informed, insightful study, Shiela Smith’s book, Intimate Rivals, deftly explores how day-to-day domestic politics in Japan inform Tokyo’s policies toward China, while Joseph Yu-shek Cheng’s dense study, China’s Japan Policy, details the impact of day-to-day politics within the CCP to locate the causes of China’s policy toward Japan. Other scholars have looked at China’s challenge to Japan from different perspectives. Dreyer shrewdly analyzes this historically rooted difficult relationship.
A stable peace will therefore not be easy. Chinese ruling groups almost cannot help but seek hegemonic predominance, and Japan staunchly resists. And rulers in Japan for those many, many centuries struggled to maintain the independence and dignity of Japan and the Japanese people.Īs a result of this history, Dreyer concludes, habits of mind have been formed in both states. Dreyer, a University of Miami political scientist, finds that historically the emperors of states in the territory of what is today China time and again sought to subordinate Japan in a China-centered hierarchy. It is well-informed on security issues, even-handed politically, and situates future China-Japan possibilities in the context of the many-centuries-long history of China-Japan relations. A book is in the works by the University of Maine’s Kristin Vekasi, for example, on how Japanese business responds to the CCP’s aggressive anti-Japan nationalism.Īmong the scholarly studies of China-Japan relations, June Teufel Dreyer’s Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun is unique. In response to such dangers, numerous top-rank analysts have been studying what China’s challenges to Japan’s peace and prosperity bode for the future of East Asia, including Taiwan. China’s chauvinistic and expansionist policies destabilize China-Japan relations and also impact the world market. The CCP’s aim is to turn what Chinese call the East Sea into a Chinese lake and the Japanese-administered Senkaku islands into sovereign Chinese territory. It therefore matters greatly that the Communist Party of China (CCP) manufactures and mobilizes anti-Japan hatreds in China. China and Japan at LoggerheadsĬhina and Japan are the world’s second and third largest economies.
Understanding relations between these two major economies requires consideration of many centuries of history.
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