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The century-old dispute between China and Japan over the Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea was rekindled when news of an attempt by the Japanese government to “nationalize” the islands in September 2012 incited strong responses in China. The Chinese government quickly denounced the attempt and refuted Japan’s territorial claim over the islands. Grassroots activists from Hong Kong took the more radical action of landing on the islands, which had been in the effective control of Japan. Yet the agitation, similar to that of previous anti-Japanese popular movements, was most palpable online.1 Infuriated reactions to the news once again took the Internet by storm.
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Feng, M., Yuan, E.J. (2014). Public Opinion on Weibo: The Case of the Diaoyu Islands Dispute. In: Hollihan, T.A. (eds) The Dispute Over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137443366_5
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