At first glance, Beijing’s designation of an air defence zone in the East China Sea marks a calibrated escalation of its longstanding dispute with Japan about sovereignty of the Senkaku or, in Chinese, Diaoyu islands. A more worrying, and plausible, interpretation is that Beijing has decided to square up to the US in the western Pacific. East Asia is looking an ever more dangerous place.
乍一看，中方在東中國海設置防空識別區，似乎是表明它在精心佈置，升級中日之間由來已久的尖閣諸島(Senkaku Islands)——中國稱爲釣魚臺及其附屬島嶼——主權爭議。更令人擔憂、也更爲可信的一種解讀是，中國政府決定在西太平洋挑戰美國。東亞局勢看起來空前危險。
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