Japanese-Chinese "Cold Politics, Hot Economy": Fitting Sectors into China's Ecosystem.

The recent Japanese-Chinese relationship is characterized as "cold politics, hot economy" and there are two schools of thoughts which describe this bilateral relationship as friendly or hostile. But such a friend/enemy dichotomy to humanize the two countries is not useful to understand it. A sectoral approach can offer the better understanding of China as a sectorally fragmented system with limited carrying capacity and the complex Japanese-Chinese bilateral relations. In this view, China has a problem in fitting its sectoral imperatives to its limited ecosystem and Japan's involvement in it has unintended and unwanted consequences. Japan should be more interested in managing negative consequences of its short-sighted involvement in China's complex system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]