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By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com
Beijing seems to have all guns blazing on the diplomatic front even as what the authorities call Uighur jihadists are wrecking more havoc in and out of Xinjiang.
While it has been a Chinese diplomatic principle to avoid simultaneous confrontations in both the South China Sea and the East China Sea, ties with both Vietnam and Japan have continued to worsen.
A Vietnamese fishing boat was rammed by a Chinese vessel and sunken earlier this week.
Since Beijing moved a $1 billion oil rig into disputed waters in the South China Sea late last month, semi-official vessels from both countries have engaged in a tense standoff in the vicinity of the drilling platform. …
At the same time, cat-and-mouse games between Chinese and Japanese Air Force aircraft over the East China Sea have produced more hand-wringing drama.
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