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Abstract

This dissertation has explored the question why repeated political shocks resulting from three diplomatic conflicts, the textbook discussion, the Yasukuni debate and the Senkaku dispute, have spilled over onto the Sino-Japanese economic relationship three times from 2005 to 2012. After discussing the concept of political shocks in context of Sino-Japanese relations, this thesis has explained the bilateral economic and political framework ignored by past research in this context that has made spillovers of three shocks possible and either constrained or prevented others.