Sino-Japanese Relations in a Trilateral Context

Origins of Misperception

Yun Zhang

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781137503343
• eBook ISBN: 9781137503350
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Asian Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book explains the increasingly turbulent Sino–Japanese relations since the 2000s by innovatively investigating the formation mechanism of mutual misperception deeply rooted in China-Japan-U.S. trilateral structural dynamics. The political and security relationship has been increasingly deteriorating against the high interdependency between the world's second and third largest economies. More ironically, both sides have also shown the intent and made efforts to improve bilateral ties. The author systematically conducts a focused comparison of the evolution of the Sino-Japanese mutual perceptions and policies toward one another during the past decade and a half. Empirically, Yun Zhang closely examines five case studies that provide insights to IR students and scholars and policy makers on how misperception and mistrust have formed, replicated, and intensified.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The Theoretical Basis and Analysis Framework: The Mechanism of Formation and Replication of Misperception in the China-Japan-US Trilateral Dynamics
• Chapter 3: China’s Perception and Policy toward Japan in the 2000s Case Study: China’s Anti-Japan Campaign in 2005
• Chapter 4: Japan’s Perception and Policy toward China in the 2000s Case Study: Japan’s Seemingly Anti-China East Asian Regional Policy in the 2000s
• Chapter 5: The Negative Turn in Mutual Perception in 2010 Case Study: The Fishing Boat Collision and Rare Earth Export Restrictions
• Chapter 6: The Tragedy of the Replication of Misperception Case Study: China-Japan’s 3.11 Disaster Diplomacy
• Chapter 7: The Intensification of Political and Intellectual Confrontation Since 2012 Case Study 1: Sino-Japanese Confrontation in 2012 over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Dispute Case Study 2: China’s Announcement of ADIZ and Abe’s Yasukuni Visit
• Chapter 8: Conclusion
• Index