Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Shinsuke SUGIYAMA (the same "shin" 晋 as Shinzō ABE)
(b) "华盛顿智库美国企业研究所亚洲问题专家、日本研究室主任迈克尔·奥斯林博士 * * * 不久前在华尔街日报撰文，题为 '中日关系逐步升级为对抗。' "
See the next posting.
(c) "乔治城大学亚洲研究中心主任车维德认同这种观点，他说北京沉溺于历史冤仇将错失改善两国关系的良机。"
(i) Victor CHA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Cha
(PhD in Political Science from Columbia in 1994; a former Director for Asian Affairs in the White House's National Security Council, with responsibility for Japan, North and South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand [but not China]; is the Director of the Asian Studies program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University)
(ii) Victor Cha
explore.georgetown.edu/people/chav/
("He left the White House in May 2007 after serving since 2004 as Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council")
(iii) Cha (Korean surname) 車
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha_(Korean_surname)
(iv) As Chinese (Mandarin) surname, Cha is 查. (I had a primary school classmate, a girl (most likely Taiwanese), surnamed 查. We boys often jeered her with "cha-be-be"--a Taiwanese phrase meaning a shrew (Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew). Regrettable.
I can not find his English name. 作者: choi 时间: 3-19-2015 08:25
Michael Auslin, China and Japan, Spiraling Toward Confrontation. Wall Street Journal Asia, Mar 10, 2015 (op ed). www.wsj.com/articles/michael-aus ... ontation-1426007492
Quote:
"The [Senkaku] islands lie at the end of what some in Japan call its 'southwestern wall,' a chain of islands stretching down from Kyushu through Okinawa and almost reaching Taiwan. These have strategic value because they form a potential obstacle to Chinese naval and commercial ships reaching the Pacific Ocean from China’s coast.
"It’s too simplistic to say that Beijing and Tokyo are on a collision course. Yet Japan shows no signs of buckling to Chinese pressure. Its military consistently responds to China’s expanding presence in northeast Asia’s skies and waters. That, in turn, raises the stakes for Beijing, which cannot afford to be seen backing down from its claims. Both sides have effectively made the Senkakus (called the Diaoyu Islands by China) a symbol of their determination to assert their national interest. * * *
"Neither wants to risk being seen as weak by the other or overshadowed in the eyes of regional states. So they are locked in a slowly spiraling competition reminiscent of the European powers in the late 19th century. As Chinese academic Shen Dingli has put it, 'the more the U.S. and Japan do, the more China will do.'
"Washington policy makers may like to think that their attempts to develop better working relations with Beijing should be taken [by Beijing] at face value. But the Chinese see the Obama administration’s attempts to deepen its alliance with Japan as proof of an encirclement policy dedicated to blocking China’s rise