From The International Herald Tribune:
Few nations are culturally so similar yet have disliked each other so deeply and so long as China and Japan. As the Chinese proverb goes, “Two tigers cannot live on the same hill.” Mutual respect based on equality and understanding is sorely lacking in both China and Japan, a situation that could destine them to a violent showdown.
Fortunately, there is also reason to hope that the two great nations could manage to share the same hill in peace in the future with a few simple gestures that would carry a lot of weight.
