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April 21, 2005
Scholar Says China's Hardly in a Position to Lecture Japan
In an article in the April 22, 2005 edition of The Australian, Ross Terrill, a research associate in East Asian studies at Harvard University, opined: You could be forgiven for smiling at East Asia's two giants bickering over school textbooks and rocky reefs, over how many apologies add up to an Apology and who should pontificate at the UN on behalf of Asia. Yet China-Japan wrangling, containable for now, could yet explode and make Middle East violence seem like kids throwing stones.East Asia is the axis of world power, because the US, China, Japan, and Russia intersect here as nowhere else.
Mr. Terrill, an expert on China, said, "coiled Japan and theatrical China have seldom got on well. War between them in 1894-95, starting over Korea, undermined China's last dynasty and gave Taiwan to Japan. Widespread war again occurred from 1937 to 1945, as Japan's armies sought to put China under Japanese tutelage. Japan's attack doomed Chiang Kai-shek's rule and fuelled Mao Zedong's victory - and Tokyo lost control of Korea as well as Taiwan. Since 1945 only US power has prevented a resurgence of China-Japan rivalry, with all that would mean for Australia and other countries in the region." Mr. Terrill's analysis is quite insightful.
Posted by Munir Umrani at April 21, 2005 11:17 PM
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