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Could a Bird Avert a China-Japan War?

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Apr 26, 2014
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Short of buying a 15-megaton thermal nuclear bomb from Russia and blowing up the Senkaku/Daioyu islands (making sure that nothing remains above the water line at low tide), is there any other way to defuse this escalating territorial dispute that some observers worry could lead to war between China and Japan?

There is, of course, an international mechani…

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