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100	1		_aTAFFER Andrew D.
245			_aThreat and opportunity: _bChinese wedging in the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute/ _cAndrew D. Taffer
260			_c2020
520			_aThis paper provides the first systematic analysis of China's conduct in its offshore territorial conflict with Japan to contend that Beijing has adopted a wedging strategy aimed at weakening the U.S.-Japan alliance. Building on previous scholarship, the article demonstrates that over the post-Cold War era China has consistently subordinated its territorial interests in the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute to help advance broader political and strategic goals. Drawing on Chinese writings, I argue that since 2010 Beijing has viewed U.S. and Japanese strategy in the conflict to be intended to contain it and that the empirical record suggests China's conduct has, in turn, sought to counter this perceived threat by weakening the alliance at its core. Beijing, it is argued, has aimed to sow discord in the U.S.-Japan alliance by "making use of contradictions" perceived to afflict U.S. strategy.
650			_aJAPAN _xCHINA
650			_aCHINA _xSTRATEGY
650			_aANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK
650			_aHISTORICAL ANALYSIS
650			_aKOIZUMI ERA
650			_aCSIS
650			_aTRAWLER
650			_aADIZ
773			_aAsian Security: _gVol 16, No. 2, 2020, pp. 157-178 (21A)
598			_aCHINA
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14799855.2019.1567493 _zClick here for full text
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