Sino-Japanese relations in the first post-cold war decade -- Proactive Japan and reactive China -- China's initiatives in structuring regional multilateralism (1996-2004) -- China-Japan relations in the post-Koizumi era : a brightening half-decade? -- From mutual tolerance to separate ways -- Delayed but proactive response : Japan strikes back -- "One-upmanship" diplomacy over the Pacific -- Competitive multilateralism : ASEAN in the context of China's advance, Japan's flanking and America's pivot -- Looking forward : Japan and China in an East Asian community
Summary
This book studies the relationship between the People's Republic of China and Japan as the basis of the construction and maintenance of economic and security arrangements in the Asia-Pacific. It explains how these arrangements have been challenged by the occasionally testy ties between these two major Asian powers and explores their dynamic interactions in promoting their own agenda and ambitions, and obstructing that of the other's in contending for leadership of East Asia
