Word: tensioning
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...China's sensibilities, either. Three such parliamentary prayer services had been held every year for decades, Hamada notes, and this one had been scheduled long before the anti-Japanese riots in China. He looks surprised when asked whether anyone discussed canceling the trip out of deference to the recent tension. "Hardly," says Hamada. "If we had canceled or postponed, that would have given the Chinese the impression that their demonstrations had some sort of meaning, that they had accomplished something...
...Last week, however, both sides acted to ease the tension. Beijing banned further protests and closed several anti-Japanese websites, while Koizumi offered his apology. But goodwill may be fleeting. Although Koizumi is credited as the architect of Japan's more confrontational foreign policy, he is backed by a growing neoconservative movement in the Diet?a bloc of Young Turk legislators who are both driving and riding the country's rekindled national pride. These are not Japan's traditional patriots, far-right citizens who wear headbands exhorting fealty to the Emperor and who for years have driven their ominous black...
...When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled," goes the old proverb. It might have been coined for China and Japan. The rekindled tension over clashing versions of their shared history now threatens the resolution of the most pressing security dilemma in North Asia: the crisis over North Korea's nuclear program...
...dealer; he has an apartment and a girlfriend; and he lords his relative success over Warren, constantly manipulating and abusing his friend. Although these two actors were talking and joking with each other only moments before taking the stage, once on it, they build up a believable degree of tension between their characters
Often times, individuals falsely operate under the assumption that visible cultural and ethnic differences imply conflict, which would suggest that we ignore racial differences. Ignoring ethnic and racial differences and opting for a more homogenous society would, however, create more tension. Instead, ethnic and racial differences foster communication and dialogue that would otherwise be limited in a more homogenous society. In fact, it is our differences that can often make life interesting and worth living. At a time when members of our campus, both administrators and students, are discussing the nature of student groups on campus, it is important that...