AsiaInt Weekly Alert, 15 April 2005

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China and Japan's enmity is deep and long-standing, but since the two normalised diplomatic ties in 1972 their relationship has rarely been allowed to deteriorate to its current level of hostility. Today's unfriendliness goes beyond superficial disputes about history textbooks and energy resources in the South China Sea to the issue of strategic competition between the two for military and economic pre-eminence in Asia, boding ill for the stability of the region in the near future_