Popular Nationalism and China’s Japan Policy: the Diaoyu Islands protests, 2012–2013.
2012–2013 witnessed a renewed flare-up of anti-Japanese sentiment in Mainland China, followed by a toughening of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Diaoyu Islands policy. Did popular nationalism influence the PRC’s military escalation? A lack of transparency in elite Chinese decision-making puts...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 25; no. 98; pp. 264 - 277 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2016
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