Opportunity in crisis: Sino-Japanese relations after the earthquake

A man puts up a banner reading China Aids to Japan on relief materials to be loaded on a plane at the Beijing Capital Airport in Beijing. (Photo: AAP)

Author: Stephen Robert Nagy, CUHK

The current disaster in Japan has provided an opportunity for Japan and China to further invest in their mutual international cooperation outside the security sphere such as the Six-Party Talks. It has done this in at least three ways.

First, China’s quick response in the wake of Japan’s largest recorded earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor crisis has demonstrated again that China and Japan can work together effectively and for their mutual benefit. Read more…