Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 61 territorial disputes 56 territorial dispute 51 disputed islands 48 naval exercises 48 diplomatic spat 48 spats 47 Spratly 45 naval skirmish 44 naval maneuvers 44 standoffs 44 naval drills 44 Senkaku Islands 44 Spratly Islands 44 inflamed tensions 43 belligerent rhetoric 43 disputed maritime 43 Uighur separatists 43 trawler captain 43 confrontations 43 Chinese fishing trawler 43 defusing tensions 43 disputed islets 42 Spratlys 42 increasingly assertive 42 flared anew 42 escalating tensions 41 wartime aggression 41 Koreas 41 Yellow Sea 41 navies 41 tussles 41 trade frictions 41 Senkaku 41 nuclear ambitions 40 tiffs 40 Koreas disputed 40 brawls 40 breakaway regions 40 Diaoyu Islands 40 easing tensions 40 separatist rebels 40 Diaoyu 40 territorial sovereignty 40 counterpart Yang Jiechi 40 heightened tensions 40 Kurils 39 Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan 39 angry outbursts 39 counterpart Hu Jintao 39 disputes 39 heightening tensions 39 nonaggression pact 39 active volcanos 39 supercarrier 39 stoking tensions 39 feuds 39 Yang Jiechi 39 bellicose rhetoric 39 Deadly clashes 39 bloody skirmishes 39 gunboat diplomacy 39 missile launches 39 tensions 39 multilateral forums 39 warships 39 bilateral 38 counterpart Wen Jiabao 38 Bilateral relations 38 incursions 38 mend ties 38 frosty relations 38 skirmishes 38 trilateral summit 38 Shanghai Cooperation 38 Kuril Islands 38 provocations 38 breakaway republics 38 assertiveness 38 Cheonan sinking 38 violent confrontations 38 longrunning 38 showdowns 38 Sino US relations 38 mutual recriminations 38 South Korean warship 37 trilateral 37 squabbles 37 eventual reunification 37 Nations ASEAN 37 warship sinking 37 quarrels 37 Ethnic tensions 37 antagonisms 37 heightened tension 37 Cheonan warship 37 gangland murders 37 clashes 37 bilateral ties 37 protectionist backlash 37 roiled 37 Escalating violence