はやばやとロンドン・エコノミスト誌に中国船長釈放問題についての論評が掲載されていましたので、重要部分を引用してみます。
Moreover, it forced the new Japanese government and Naoto Kan, its prime minister, to make a hard choice: between a handful of uninhabited rocks, far from Japan's main islands, and the future of its economy. Japan's decision not to go to the wall for its territorial claims looks refreshingly expedient, but it may come to haunt it in the long term.
日本政府のとった態度については、目をみはる時宜にかなった行為（refreshingly expedient）と評価しています。まーイギリスの雑誌だから仕方が無いでしょう。しかし、長期的には日本を悩ます問題となるだろうとも書いています。
This has also been a test of China, though in a way the country seems not to understand it. Its actions have called into question its maturity as a responsible international actor and undermined its pretensions to a "peaceful rise". Other states observe a host of traditions to help see them work through border disputes and express their displeasure with one another. The melodrama of China's reaction, entirely disproportionate to the matter at hand, made it impossible for the two sides to find a mutually acceptable outcome. The acute crisis may be over but this resolution is sure to usher in an extended period of chill between the countries.
一方中国の態度にはより批判的です。成熟した責任をもった行動とはとても言えないと書いています。また中国が常に主張する「平和的発展」を傷つけるものだと指摘しています。
中国の目的と手段のアンバランスは、長期にわたって日中間に冷たさをもたらすだろうと締めくくっています。
どうも今回の事件は中国の異質性を世界にみせたようです。
Moreover, it forced the new Japanese government and Naoto Kan, its prime minister, to make a hard choice: between a handful of uninhabited rocks, far from Japan's main islands, and the future of its economy. Japan's decision not to go to the wall for its territorial claims looks refreshingly expedient, but it may come to haunt it in the long term.
日本政府のとった態度については、目をみはる時宜にかなった行為（refreshingly expedient）と評価しています。まーイギリスの雑誌だから仕方が無いでしょう。しかし、長期的には日本を悩ます問題となるだろうとも書いています。
This has also been a test of China, though in a way the country seems not to understand it. Its actions have called into question its maturity as a responsible international actor and undermined its pretensions to a "peaceful rise". Other states observe a host of traditions to help see them work through border disputes and express their displeasure with one another. The melodrama of China's reaction, entirely disproportionate to the matter at hand, made it impossible for the two sides to find a mutually acceptable outcome. The acute crisis may be over but this resolution is sure to usher in an extended period of chill between the countries.
一方中国の態度にはより批判的です。成熟した責任をもった行動とはとても言えないと書いています。また中国が常に主張する「平和的発展」を傷つけるものだと指摘しています。
中国の目的と手段のアンバランスは、長期にわたって日中間に冷たさをもたらすだろうと締めくくっています。
どうも今回の事件は中国の異質性を世界にみせたようです。
