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    Territorial Disputes between China and Japan in the East China Sea:
    (UMT.lahore, 2018) Muhammad Usman Askari
    This thesis highlights the acts of China and Japan in the East China Sea (ECS) territorial dispute. It shows the both claimants strategies against each other over this issue. Both are focusing on the economic advancement and military modernization to secure its interests in the ECS. The growing tension between China and Japan over territory and maritime rights in the ECS has become a potential flashpoint in their bilateral relations. In order to maintain economic relationship, China and Japan have adopted the tactics of engagement. But at the same time they are hedging peace in the region owing to failure in settling ECS issue. This research tries to find out the answer to research problem, despite their close economic cooperation with each other, why China and japan have failed to resolve their territorial dispute in the ECS? The research has applied with qualitative methodology within post positivist paradigm. Two components of strategic hedging theory, Balancing and Engagement are utilized to analyze the behavior and strategies of the China and Japan in the ECS dispute. For data analysis directed content analysis with more focus on manifest approach has been used. Japan and China are regional neighbors, but due to the importance of the islands in their history both countries remain still on the dispute. Japan is employing political ties and military relations to hedge against China in the ECS. The China and Japan have to engage each other in the multilateral economic initiatives for deepening the relations between both countries. While engaging each other, both counties can share the burden of responsibility in the disputed ECS.