Coming Anarchy has a post on over 30 incidents of Japanese fighters scrambling to turn away Chinese planes encroaching on Japanese airspace. Dawn's Early Light believes these growing incidents have to do with the struggle for oil and engergy deposits in the East China Sea.
Two prior posts on this struggle can be found in "Containing China and Thwarting Terrorism" (May 10, 2005) and "China Rebuffs Japanese Foreign Minister" (October 18, 2005)
Both articles deal with the sensitive issue of energy needs and resources of China and their growing aggressiveness in attempting to claim and outright take these assets.
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