Perplexing situation in Northeast Asia

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Perplexing situation in Northeast Asia

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2010-11-5 13:10

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited an island claimed by Moscow and Tokyo on Monday, sparking a fresh diplomatic row with Japan as it struggles to mend ties with rising rival China.

Medvedev's visit to the island, one of four known as the Southern Kuriles in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, was likely to snarl ties with Japan ahead of an Asia-Pacific leaders summit that Japan will host in mid-November.

Japanese PM Kan, whose support ratings have sunk to around 40 percent after five months in office, has already seen ties with China sour after Japan in September detained a Chinese trawler captain whose boat collided with Japanese patrol ships near disputed isles in the East China Sea.

Hopes that relations between Asia's two biggest economies were on the mend were dashed on the weekend, when China abruptly canceled a planned meeting between Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Hanoi.

The dispute with Beijing has raised concerns about fallout for business. China became Japan's biggest trade partner last year, replacing the United States.

The latest diplomatic fuss with Russia is another bad news for Kan, who took over as Japan's fifth premier in three years in June and then led his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) to an upper house election defeat the next month. The party swept to power for the first time last year pledging to change how the country is governed.

Ties between the DPJ-led government and Japan's close ally the United States were also frayed by a row over a U.S. airbase on southern Okinawa island, although concerns about China have helped relations with Washington improve recently.

The volatile situation of Northeast Asia has in recent months turned out more indiscernible and unpredictable----The relations between China and Japan dipped to the lowest ever, Russia dn Japan are entangled in the new diplomatic tussles, and the ties between China and the U.S. have been off the sound track since early in the year when U.S. approved the arms sales to Taiwan. North Korea still looks like thorn in flesh to the U.S. and its ally South Korea.

Some observed that the nascent “Cold War” pattern seems to have taken shape in Northeast Asia with the emergence of geopolitical conflicts in the region, which is more likely to see the confronting two blocs---Japan, South Korea and US vs China, North Korea and Russia.

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