East Asia’s Patriots and Populists
East Asia is being riven by a series of sovereignty disputes over islands in the East and South China Seas. But domestic factors are playing a larger role than international rivalry in stoking these tensions.
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TOKYO – When faced with domestic worries, politicians often resort to foreign diversions – a simple axiom that is highly useful in assessing the increasingly tense sovereignty disputes in the East and South China Seas.