These two powers are still trying to figure out their roles in the region. There is a saying in Chinese that two tigers cannot share the same mountain.

Zhiqun Zhu, a political science professor and director of the China Institute at Bucknell University. The Japanese government recently announced plans to populate a cluster of minute, rocky islands located almost equidistant between Okinawa and Taiwan -- a move that has reignited a decades-long dispute with China over sovereignty of the tiny territories. (Fox News)

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