Spoiling for a Fight
1 | CHINA
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta certainly picked a sensitive date to visit China. Sept. 18, the day he arrived in Beijing, was the anniversary of the 1931 Mukden Incident, when imperial Japan began its invasion and brutal wartime occupation of China. That tragic moment in history shouldn't necessarily affect modern Sino-American ties, but China and Japan are embroiled in a territorial dispute that has dragged those countries' relations to their lowest point in years. As Japan's top ally, the U.S. has been pulled into the fracas, which involves a scattering of uninhabited islets...
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