china's 'evolving' protest policy

relations between china and japan have deteriorated to the point that anti-japanese protests in mainland china have become increasingly unruly. the chinese government hasn't intervened to head off protest as it did ~15 years ago, but want to "avoid giving protesters 'a pretext to vent their dissatisfaction' over other issues"

both countries are saying the expected things about easing tensions, but there are much deeper issues--nationalism, the UN, etc.