Japan feels diplomatic squeeze as US-China tensions rise

Telegram China and Japan have decades of experience in managing their regular diplomatic crises, but escalating tensions over Taiwan and territorial disputes in the East China Sea are creating a new test for Asia's most powerful giants.Last month's agreement between US and Japanese defence ministers to single out China as a common threat - and the earlierface-off in Alaska between senior Chinese and US diplomats - indicated rising US-China tensions were pushing Japan to side with the US because of its... Share this: