Heeding History in East Asia
Recently, Chinese, South Korean, and Japanese diplomats reasserted their countries’ sovereignty claims to islands in the East China Sea at the UN General Assembly. An honest evaluation of history is crucial to addressing the long-simmering territorial disputes, and to establishing lasting peace and prosperity in East Asia.
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SEOUL – Chinese, South Korean, and Japanese diplomats recently took to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly to reassert their countries’ positions on the territorial issues surrounding several small islands in the seas of East Asia. But the composed manner in which they delivered their remarks belied their countries’ long-simmering tensions over the islands, which have come to a near boil in the last few months.