Sino - Japanese relations fast deteriorating amid tensions over disputed waters in the East China Sea . Some say China and Japan are engaged in a war of propaganda and aggression . ` Since the early 1990s , the communist party has been trying to stoke anti-Japanese patriotism among the Chinese people mostly because they wanted to regain some of the legitimacy they lost in the Tiananmen Square massacre , '' says Kingston , referring to the bloody military crackdown on Chinese student demonstrators in 1989 . " Kingston : ` ` These battles over history undermine trust and limit the room for discussion ''
Sino - Japanese relations fast deteriorating amid tensions over disputed waters in the East China Sea . Some say China and Japan are engaged in a war of propaganda and aggression . " Kingston : ` ` These battles over history undermine trust and limit the room for discussion ''