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Slideshow Japan considers deporting China activists to defuse feud: media Tweet Share this Email Print Related News China again demands Japan free detained activists 3:43am EDT Analysis & Opinion Essential reading: Indigestion for the French in a plan for higher taxes, and more Next Week: “Put” in place? Related Topics World » Japan » A Chinese activist (top, 2nd L) who is arrested after landing on a disputed island, disembarks from a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship upon his arrival at a port in Naha on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 16, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Kyodo By Linda Sieg TOKYO | Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:43am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan may deport 14 Chinese activists arrested for landing on a disputed island to try to defuse a worsening feud between Asia's two biggest economies, media and experts said on Thursday, but the risk of an escalating confrontation remains. The row over the islands in the East China Sea has frayed relations between the two Asian neighbors, long bedeviled by the legacy of Japan's wartime occupation of much of China and contemporary rivalry over resources and regional clout. Wednesday's landing, coinciding with the 67th anniversary of the end of World War Two, parallels tensions between China and Southeast Asia over rival territorial claims in the South China Sea. China's lengthening naval reach has fed worries that an aggressive Beijing could brandish its military might to get its way - and galvanized Chinese citizens' demands for tough action. "I think there's a good agreement between both governments to avoid military clashes at all costs," said Willy Lam, an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He added, though, that Beijing was acting aggressively through the row to try to get a better deal on joint development of maritime gas fields. "The confrontation will certainly scale up in the forthcoming months," he said. Japanese media said the activists, seven of whom waded ashore and planted a Chinese flag on the rocky, uninhabited isle, would be deported if authorities determined they had done nothing else illegal. Japan and China traded protests over the incident, with Tokyo lodging a complaint with the Chinese ambassador and Beijing demanding their unconditional and immediate release. China's ruling Communist Party is preoccupied with a looming leadership change, which will probably both increase its focus on internal stability and deter it from seeming soft on Japan, a country many Chinese still associate with wartime brutality. "Just what kind of mentality has caused Japan to lose its self-restraint and repeatedly challenge China's staunch determination to protect its territory and sovereignty?" China's Communist Party's mouthpiece, the People's Daily, said. "IT'S JUST PLAIN LAZY" Small protests were held sporadically amid tight security near Japan's embassy in Beijing, while China's government faced a storm of online criticism from Chinese bloggers demanding a tougher stance to ensure the activists' quick release. "These islands are China's. We should use the military to protect our rights," said supermarket worker Song Gang, 25, who was walking near the Japanese embassy. Around 30 people protested at the Japanese consulate in Hong Kong, chanting slogans and demanding the activists' release. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, his popularity ratings tanking after about a year in office and possibly on his way out soon, also faces domestic pressure not to appear weak. "The prime minister should visit the islands. If he doesn't go at this point, it's just plain lazy," said the nationalist governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, whose proposal for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to buy the islands from their private owners ratcheted up tensions and pushed Noda to try to have the central government make the purchase instead. A Japanese nationalist group is sponsoring a weekend trip by lawmakers and others to waters near the island, although the government has denied permission to land. "In both countries, there is a tail wagging-the-dog phenomenon, with lower-level politicians or individual activists taking nationalist stances or actions and forcing the central governments to respond to escalating tension," Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt of the International Crisis Group said by email. "While Japan's national leaders are navigating a fragmented and shifting political landscape, the Chinese leadership is steering a potentially treacherous power transfer, limiting the political capital available to either Tokyo or Beijing to go against populist or nationalist sentiment." With economic links tighter than ever, both sides likely would want to avoid a rerun of a nasty spat two years ago after Japan's arrest of a Chinese trawler captain whose boat collided with a Japanese patrol boat near the islands. China at the time imposed a de facto ban on exports of rare earth metals vital for electronics and auto parts manufacturing. On Thursday, China's commerce ministry urged Japan to handle the issue properly. 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