News Sources: Chill in Japan-China Relations

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for a "broader Asia" partnership of democracies that would include India, the United States and Australia but leave out the region's superpower, China. Meanwhile, Tokyo has sought to build closer security ties with the United States, Australia and India, and its navy is due to take part for the first time in joint U.S.-India exercises to be held in the Bay of Bengal next month. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including (click on names for contact information):

David Arase - Associate Professor of Politics, Pomona College - Arase is an expert on the economics, politics and security of Japan and the economic cooperation and regional security relations between China, Japan, Russia, and North Korea. He is the author of Buying Power: The Political Economy of Japanese Foreign Aid.

Frank Gibney - Professor of Politics, Pomona College - One of America's foremost experts on East Asia and Asian/Pacific Affairs, Gibney is founder and president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College and was the producer of the acclaimed PBS series, "The Pacific Century." The author of several books, he is fluent in Japanese and continues to travel throughout Asia.

Bin Yu - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wittenberg University - An expert on China's foreign policy, Yu is a fellow at the East-West Center, president of Chinese Scholars of Political Science and International Studies and a faculty associate of the Mershon Center. Yu is also a MacArthur fellow at the Center of International Security and Arms Control and a research fellow at Center of International Studies, Beijing