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This photo taken on Dec. 11, 2015 shows uniquely beautiful winter scenery of the Zhaoshu Island in the South China Sea. (Xinhua file photoZhao Yingquan)
BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Japan's attempt to stir up tension on the South China Sea during the Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers' meeting starting on Sunday bears ulterior motives, according to Chinese experts studying Japan.
The Shinzo Abe administration of Japan has been trying to place the South China Sea on top of the agenda at the upcoming two-day meeting in Hiroshima, despite pressing issues of combating terrorism and extremism, and the refugee crisis troubling Europe and the Middle East.
"Japan over the recent years has been actively adapting itself to the United States' strategy of Rebalancing toward Asia-Pacific in order to build deterrence against China," Wang Shaopu, director of the Japan Study Center with the Shanghai Jiaotong University, told Xinhua.
To that end, Japan has taken a series of domestic actions including lifting the ban on the so-called "collective self-defense" right, and has meddled in the South China Sea in attempt to gain more leverage over China, Wang said.
Meanwhile, hyping up the issue at the G7 platform is also Japan's attempt to sow discord between China and major European countries, he said.
The Abe administration has used previous G7 meetings to lobby Western powers to jointly contain China.
The bloc issued an unprecedented statement concerning the East and South China Seas after a foreign ministers' meeting in Germany last April.
Although statements from the G7 are not legally binding, the Japanese government believes it can stir up world concern and form a perception as if the international community supports Japan on such topics against China, said Sun Shaohong, a researcher on Japan at China's National Defense University.
Sun said Japan aims to complicate the situation in the South China Sea and make it an international issue.
The Abe administration also seeks to win international and domestic support for the revision of its constitution this year to allow the country to declare war, Wang added.
On Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned "relevant parties" not to put disputes, including territorial controversies, into the G7 summit.
If certain countries deliberately put historical issues or even disputes over territorial sovereignty into the G7 summit, it will harm regional stability instead of helping resolve the issues, which is obviously undesirable, the Chinese minister said.
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"Japan is not eligible to make comments on the South China Sea issue. However, it actively misled the public and smeared China in the international community recently, regardless of basic facts. I want to tell the Japanese side that doing so will be vain. It will only make the Chinese people see clearly some Japanese people's mentality," said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang at a regular press briefing. Full story
Commentary: South China Sea should not be dominated by outside countries
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- In view of the disturbing development of events, countries around the South China Sea should maintain the dominant role in addressing issues in this region.
It is a plain fact that only countries in this region are most impacted by events in the South China Sea, whether bad or good. Only they are capable of making decisions in the best interests of their "neighborhood," unlike countries far from the center of events.
Davos and Jon in 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 Episode 3. (Photo: Helen Sloan vans slip on offerte , HBO)
When you play the game of thrones you win or you die. But it's hard to tell what winning looks like anymore.
The third episode of Season 7 was a reminder that no one on Game of Thrones is infallible, not even the great Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Chains, and all the other titles that are increasingly meaningless. All of Dany's great names won't win her battles. Tyrion's smarts won't work against a brother who actually knows him. Three dragons aren't that much use if you can't fly them.
Jon Snow accused Dany (and in absentia, Cersei) of being children playing games, and, when you think about it, petty lords who treat the lives of their subjects as pawns in a "game of thrones" aren't really that much better. He and Davos see the series from the audience's vantage point, understanding that the true threat comes from without, not within.
"The Queen's Justice" was a surprising and surprisingly humorous episode that gave fans the long-awaited meeting between Jon Snow and Daenerys, "ice" and "fire" as Melisandre so unsubtly pointed out (the book series the show is based on is called A Song of Ice and Fire, if you recall). The significance of those two characters in the same room, and of Bran's return to Winterfell with the knowledge of Jon's birth, the White Walkers' origin and so much more, undercuts the seemingly large chess moves that Cersei made in her war with Dany. A much bigger game is being played. It may still be a game, but the stakes are a lot higher. And losing is a lot colder.
At this late hour, in Westeros and in the show, winning doesn't necessarily mean sitting on the Iron Throne. It doesn't even mean survival, for some. Olenna was never after survival, not after Cersei destroyed her family. She told Ellaria that much in the Season 6 finale. She wanted vengeance, and she got it by confessing to Joffrey's murder with her final breaths.
If only winning was that easy for everyone else.
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