Susan Shirk Quoted in Reuters
Japan seeks damages as China trawler row lingers
09/28/2010
Kiyoshi Takenaka and Chris Buckley,
Reuters
Japan said it will ask China to pay for damage to its patrol boats suffered in a collision with a Chinese trawler, as Asia's top two economies continue to bicker over the affair.
China's newspapers accused Japan of exploiting the dispute to bolster its alliance with the United States and warned that Tokyo couldn't afford the economic price of confrontation with Beijing.
Verbal volleying has continued for days in a quarrel between the two neighbours over Japan's detention of the Chinese skipper of the fishing boat that collided with two Japanese coastguard ships, although he was released and returned home on the weekend.
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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
