Senkakus Islands

Much is made in the international media of the way North Korea ignites military tensions with Groundhog Day-like precision. It does this, of course, by threatening to nuke not just wary neighbors like South Korea and Japan, but even the United States. By contrast, relatively little is made of the way Japan ignites similar tensions… Read more.

War between China and Japan over the Senkakus would make the war Argentina and Britain fought over the Falklands seem like a barroom brawl between mindless drunks. Not least because the United States would be compelled to honor its treaty obligations to defend Japan… [But] notwithstanding the mob-like passions of their respective nationalists, I’m sure… Read more.