Part of a weekly “In Focus” series—stepping back, looking closer.
Why are China and Japan sealed in a moving face-off, shocking a universe and inflicting estimable mercantile pain on themselves, over a garland of little void islands in a East China Sea?
Nationalist politics and chronological resentments figure heavily in a territorial dispute, as do fish. But there’s another manly ingredient: energy.
Map by National Geographic
In Asia, and generally in China, direct for energy and fuel is quick outstripping supply. (Related: “Pictures: A Rare Look Inside China’s Energy Machine“) Meanwhile, advances in deepwater drilling record have put offshore oil
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http://www.news.ezonearticle.com/2012/10/28/why-are-china-and-japan-sparring-over-eight-tiny-uninhabited-islands/
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