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By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com

The landslide victory won by the Shinzo Abe administration in last weekend’s parliamentary elections is unlikely to lead to a detente in Japan’s difficult relations with China.

Just the opposite. While senior Chinese officials have remained reticent, the official media have zeroed in on the fact that with its control on both houses of the Japanese Diet, Abe’s Liberal Democracy Party (LDP) would go ahead with “right-wing nationalistic moves” such as amending the Japanese Constitution.

The Global Times, deemed a mouthpiece of hawkish elements of the Chinese leadership, said in a commentary on July 23 that Sino-Japanese relations had entered “a phase of cold confrontation.”

Referring to worsening sovereignty disputes in the East China Sea, the newspaper said “China has an increasingly strong capability to inflict a ‘sufficiently painful’ lesson [on Japan] regarding its military provocations.”

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