Generalising about one billion people may seem fraught with hazard, but it is nevertheless true that the Chinese have a very strong sense of ethnic identity which comes to the fore when territorial issues are involved.
The clash between Japan and both the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) shows just how quickly these nationalist issues can ignite. The dispute is over a small group of islands in the East China Sea known to Japan as the Senkakus, to Taiwan as…
