Date&Time
January 16, 2017 (Monday) 12:15-12:50
Venue
Waseda University: Waseda Campus :19th building 7F Room No.713
Intended Audience
WIAPS Full-time Faculty/Research Associates, WIAPS Exchange Researchers/Visiting Scholars/Visiting Researchers, GSAPS MA/PhD Students
Presentation1
Presenter
CHEUNG, Mong (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies)
Presentation Theme
Useful Adversary: Foreign-Domestic Linkages in China-Japan relations
Abstract
It is generally taken for granted that Sino-Japanese relations in the post-Cold War era are determined by the emergence of nationalism and strategic calculations with regard to East Asia international politics in both sides. These interpretations are insufficient. Of the foreign policy relationship of People’s Republic of China (PRC), Japan has always been considered as the most sensitive and emotional foreign policy issue that needed to be prudently handled in Chinese domestic politics. Similarly, no country feels China’s rise more deeply than Japan. The rejuvenation of China since the 2000s has gradually turned into a significant issue in Japanese domestic political context. By examining two recent cases in the 2010s, this short talk offers an alternative interpretation to Sino-Japanese relations in the post-Cold War era by highlighting the rationality of individual leaders and the primacy of domestic political survival.