Growing Tension Between China And Japan Fuels Concerns Over Potential War -- Mark MacKinnon, Globe and Mail
China’s incoming leader re-emerged this weekend after an unexplained two-week absence, just in time to see the country he’s about to inherit consumed with rabid anti-Japanese nationalism that his Communist Party unleashed, and which the United States warned on Sunday could lead to a regional war.
Beijing’s rapidly deteriorating relationship with Tokyo will top the agenda as Xi Jinping takes over as general secretary of the Communist Party from President Hu Jintao, a promotion expected as early as next month. While Mr. Xi will continue to share power with Mr. Hu for months afterward, the stakes could scarcely be higher for his first test.
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My Comment: The probability of war is zero .... but heightened tensions, inflammatory speeches, economic boycotts, confrontations at sea, warships facing each other .... that is now a given.