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Sunday, July 22, 2012

''Drivers Behind the Japan-China Territorial Dispute''

From Strategic Culture

''It is a straightforward guess in this light that Washington will be using Japan as a kind of a frontier force against China and Russia. The trend is already manifest: the US Department of State occasionally sided with Tokyo over the Kuril Islands or, implicitly, encouraged Japan's pushiness in the brawl over the Senkakus–Diaoyu Islands. On November 1, 2010, US Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Philip Crawley backed the territorial ambitions harbored in Tokyo and referred to the Kuril Islands as Japanese Northern territories.''

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