ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of Japan in relation to China’s security interests. The first section looks at how Japan can actually enhance China’s security interests, particularly in the economic sphere although frictions between both sides must also be analysed. The next section assesses Japan as a potential political and military security threat to China, at a time when Japan itself shows signs of re-emerging as a great power. This is then examined in relation to Japan’s ties with the US. On the whole, it will be argued that Japan is seen as constituting a stiff challenge to China’s security interests.
