Picture it: it's 1 March 2015. Tokyo and Beijing are headed towards what was once the unthinkable.
Over the last several months China has instituted daily non-naval maritime patrols around the hotly disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands.
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Harry Kazianis is managing editor of The National Interest. He also serves as a non-resident Senior Fellow at the China Policy Institute-University of Nottingham as well as a non-resident WSD Handa fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies:PACNET. He formerly served as editor of The Diplomat. He can be reached via email here.