Japan might have blinked first in the increasingly tense diplomatic confrontation with China over the arrest of a Chinese fishing boat captain, who was due to be released on Friday and flown home.
And the Japanese government came under immediate attack at home for giving in to the pressure from China, which was ratcheted up throughout the week.
Yet for Beijing, there is also a risk that its tough approach could backfire as it feeds mounting concern across Asia about the rising power of an economy that recently overtook Japan as the world’s second largest.
您已閱讀17%（559字），剩余83%（2791字）包含更多重要信息，訂閱以繼續探索完整內容，并享受更多專屬服務。