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A war between China and Japan would be so calamitous, it seems outside the realm of believably. And yet, wars like that have happened. I agree that Japan is a convenient but dangerous political distraction for domestic Chinese politics. My wife related that when the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Kosovo, a protest began around the US embassy in Beijing, but it later expanded to one outside the Japanese embassy, "just because".