Calm in the East China Sea?: What to Make of Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping's Recent Meeting
"Can the two sides find the political will necessary to immediately establish sustainable and effective mechanisms to ensure that any future incidents in the air or at sea do not escalate into a military conflict?"
One can only hope that winter in Northeast Asia this year will prove unexpectedly warm.
Adam P. Liff is Assistant Professor of East Asian International Relations at Indiana University’s School of Global and International Studies, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, and Associate-in-Research at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.