After 30 years of post-Cold War great power stability, Asia's peace is threatening to unravel. Tensions are rising over Taiwan, the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, and North Korea - all amid talk of a "new Cold War" between the United States and China.
Furthermore, five years have passed since an arbitral tribunal's ruling against China's claims to a handful of islands in the South China Sea, though to little effect.
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