Around the region
April 2014 ASEAN INSIGHTS
Around the region1The long simmering territorial dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands has led to increasingly nationalistic and aggressive stances in both China and Japan. While the situation may not escalate into open conflict, tensions may spill over into and be played out in the two countries’ engagement with countries in South-East Asia.The US’s continued preoccupation with the Middle East and its own internal challenges will feed perceptions of a power vacuum in the region – which both China and Japan...
