Geopolitico

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href="/web/20150905212739/http://asia.nikkei.com/Viewpoints/Geopolitico/Apologizing-is-not-a-job-for-Japan-alone">Apologizing is not a job for Japan alone</a></h2> <p>In the 70 years since World War II, China has racked up a lengthy list of things to atone for, writes Arthur Herman. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-list "> <div class="article-box text-list"> <ul> <li> <div class="sub-title">Daniel Twining</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905212739/http://asia.nikkei.com/Viewpoints/Geopolitico/China-s-history-war-against-Japan-may-backfire">China's 'history war' against Japan may backfire</a></h3> <p>By prodding Japan on history, China may cast light on its own inconvenient past and Imperial Japan-like behaviors of late, warns Daniel Twining.</p> </li> <li> <div class="sub-title">Humphrey Hawksley</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905212739/http://asia.nikkei.com/Viewpoints/Geopolitico/A-beckoning-Asia-could-help-to-reduce-Arctic-tensions">A beckoning Asia could help to reduce Arctic tensions</a></h3> <p>The U.S. needs to start taking the Arctic more seriously, and access to Asian markets could play a role, writes Humphrey Hawksley.</p> </li> <li> <div class="sub-title">Mathew J. Burrows and Robert A. Manning</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905212739/http://asia.nikkei.com/Viewpoints/Geopolitico/Will-an-inverted-US-China-Russia-triangle-reshape-world-order">Will an inverted US-China-Russia triangle reshape world order?</a></h3> <p>It was a brilliant move in 1971, when President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger took advantage of China's desire for support against the USSR with the historic US opening to China. 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Manning and James Przystup</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905212739/http://asia.nikkei.com/Viewpoints/Geopolitico/Why-we-don-t-need-another-George-Kennan">Why we don't need another George Kennan</a></h3> <p>The answer to how the U.S. and Japan should approach China can be found in a 1947 essay on the USSR, according to Robert A. Manning and James Przystup.</p> </li> <li> <div class="sub-title">Rupakjyoti Borah</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905212739/http://asia.nikkei.com/Viewpoints/Geopolitico/BRICS-comes-of-age-in-Ufa">BRICS comes of age in Ufa</a></h3> <p>BRICS, as an organisation, has come a long way since the acronym "BRIC" was coined by then-chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management Jim O'Neill in a 2001 report titled, "Building Better Global Economic BRICs." 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