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Volume 11 - Issue 7 - February 2013

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Research Article

  • An Australian Role in Reducing the Prospects of China-Japan War over the Senkakus/Diaoyutai?

  • Richard Tanter
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 May 2025, e1
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  • The idea that China and Japan are slipping towards war over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands territorial conflict is deeply shocking. How could the world's second and third largest economies even consider the possibility of war over half a dozen uninhabitable islets? For Australians, the question is more serious still: could Australia be drawn into the dangerous conflict between its two largest trading partners on the side of Japan because of its defence agreements with Japan and because of the pull of the ANZUS alliance?