Tensions with China are building up over the Diaoyu Island with Japan and over other disputed islands with other neigbours in the South China Sea. The geopolitical dynamics were discussed on Inside Story with Aljazeera English on 16 August 2012.
Apart from myself, the two other panelists appearing on the TV program were Bruce Klingner, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think tank; and Brett Bull, a freelance reporter who worked in Japan for 10 years.
(N.B. Midway in the program the credentials appearing beside me contain a serious error, not of my own making. It says I was a "Former Hong Kong rep to the UN". I had never worked in the UN and indeed, Hong Kong was and never will be a sovereign state to be able to send a rep to the UN. I have already requested Aljazeera to correct this glaring mistake.)
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