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December 27, 2012

Scary Possibility: War in East China Sea

Rory Medcalf, China Power

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The gloomiest man in Canberra, Australia’s noted strategic expert Hugh White, has added a new edge to his warning about possible war between the United States and China.  He now suggests that precisely such a conflict could arise from the sustained tensions between Beijing and Tokyo over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea, and perhaps as soon as 2013.

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TAGGED: East China Sea, United States, Senkaku islands, China, Japan

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