Shinzo Abe’s December 27 visit to Yasukuni shrine will certainly not improve East Asia’s already tense relations, but it is hardly the root cause of this tension, as I argue today in my CNN op-ed.[…]
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Salves and slaps
With his recent visit to Yasukuni Shrine, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unleashed a diplomatic storm in East Asia. In the Groundhog Day of East Asia’s history problems, his visit triggered condemnation from China[…]