Neither China nor Japan wants war. The danger is that each side increasingly believes the other is preparing for one.

The Japanese government plans to indicate it is on alert over China's increasing military activities around Japan, particularly in th

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“For nigh on 1,000 years, the Japanese pirates have wreaked havoc…they respect only force, and their hearts are bursting with malice.” This month China’s armed forces released these verses on social media. As poetry, it is perhaps not the best.

By Arathy Somasekhar and David Brunnstrom April 27 (Reuters) - China denounced remarks by Japan and the European Union about the South China Sea at a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday and accused Tokyo of provocative behavior in the Taiwan Strait and planning military expansion.