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Is World War Three about to start... by accident? Max Hastings asks whether rising tensions between China and Japan could boil over
Max Hastings
Jan. 7, 2014
- Chinese diplomat argued that Japan risks 'serious threat to global peace'
- He even compared Japan today to Lord Voldemort, from Harry Potter
- It comes just weeks after China declared its own Air Defence Zone
- Japan's prime minister has threatened to shoot down any Chinese drones
Perhaps it is possible — and how nice it would be to believe this — that war between the greatest nations on earth has been abolished.
The cost and the threat of nuclear escalation is so horrendous that reason argues that nothing remotely resembling the 20th century's vast global clashes can ever happen again.
Assuredly, there can be no more Dunkirks or D-Days, because no Western nation — even the United States — can deploy a mass army.