{"id":70205,"date":"2026-08-07T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/70205\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:08:09","slug":"china-vs-japan-the-battle-for-the-global-microphone-to-reshape-post-war-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/70205\/","title":{"rendered":"China vs Japan: the battle for the global microphone to reshape post-war identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

No longer confined to disputed islands or historical memory, the rivalry between Beijing and Tokyo<\/a> has evolved into a fight for the global microphone, as both countries try to define each other\u2019s international identity.<\/p>\n

In stark contrast, Japan has rejected the label as \u201cfalse claims\u201d, casting itself as a defender of regional security, a peace-loving country and a victim of \u201ccoercion\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tokyo has argued that Beijing\u2019s expanding arsenal, \u201copaque\u201d military build-ups and \u201cchallenges to the established rules\u201d should worry the international community.<\/p>\n

China calls nuclear submarine missile test \u2018routine\u2019 as Australia, Japan voice concerns<\/p>\n

While China\u2019s denunciation of Japan\u2019s new militarism is still being tested for traction abroad, many countries between the Asia-Pacific region and Europe have continued to deepen their defence cooperation with Tokyo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina faces a profoundly distorted global narrative that has largely obscured the fascist atrocities committed by Japan against China and other nations during World War II that have never been fully reckoned with at the international level,\u201d said Shen Yi, executive director of the Centre for National Security Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No longer confined to disputed islands or historical memory, the rivalry between Beijing and Tokyo has evolved into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5730,549,45342,12,2545,8,17,45344,85,45343,6219,23593,45341,2311,5108,52],"class_list":["post-70205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-asean","tag-beijing","tag-cairo-declaration","tag-china","tag-fudan-university","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-masahiro-matsumura","tag-osaka","tag-potsdam-proclamation","tag-shanghai","tag-shangri-la-dialogue","tag-shen-yi","tag-shinjiro-koizumi","tag-southeast-asia","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}