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Tensions continued to mount through early 2014, raising concerns about an “accidental war” between China and Japan, which would demand the involvement of Japan’s main ally, the US (as President Barack Obama confirmed on a visit to Tokyo last April).

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We're constantly creating tensions and conflicts.

Tensions between these two families date back to 1913 when there was a dispute over local political power.

Will there be tensions over immigration, or conflicts over competition for limited resources?

By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.

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