For many observers, rising frictions between China and Japan over a group of remote and uninhabited islands in the East China Sea are worrying enough.
But if some influential Chinese nationalist commentators have their way, the spat over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands, which Beijing calls the Diaoyu, could widen into a dispute over a much more important archipelago.
In a fiery editorial earlier this month, the Global Times newspaper urged Beijing to consider challenging Japan’s control over its southern prefecture of Okinawa, an island chain with a population of 1.4m people that bristles with US military bases.
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