Hardliners, Weapons-Makers the Real Winners in Japan-China Dispute
by TRNN
Japanese and Chinese nationalists are willing to bet their countries' futures for the sake of national pride and a handful of uninhabited islands in the sea, but it may be the global weapons-making industry that walks away with the pot.
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Michael Penn: This is Michael Penn with The Real News in Tokyo. Much of
the world has been surprised in recent weeks by political bickering
between the world’s second- and third- largest economies, China and
Japan, over a group of five tiny islands where nobody even lives. In
spite of the apparent insignificance of the territories involved, they
have engendered passions which spread a crisis throughout East Asia.
