A boycott would merely provoke nationalist hostility in China.

After the Nationalist government collapsed in 1949, Mao s New China emerged.

As the Party uses nationalist sentiment to keep China unified, these sentiments have become fiercer, and the political leadership is increasingly held hostage to nationalist opinion in formulating China s foreign policy towards Japan.

Indeed, as the eminent historian Wang Gungwu has pointed out, the first maps to claim the South China Sea were Japanese, and were inherited by Nationalist China.

If China responds to entreaties to revalue the yuan, it may need to look tough on other issues to appease nationalist sentiment.

The first and formal answer is that China inherited historical territorial claims, including a map from the Nationalist period that sketches a nine dotted line encompassing virtually the entire South China Sea.

All of this is fueling nationalist sentiment in China and South Korea, and making even more dangerous the already volatile territorial disputes in the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan.

China should refrain from sending official vessels into Japanese waters, and use a hotline with Japan to manage crises generated by nationalist cowboys.

He's a nationalist.

Japan s Nationalist Turn

Abe has a reputation as a nationalist, and recently visited the Yasukuni Shrine, a Tokyo war memorial that is controversial in China and Korea.

He is merely an unthinking nationalist, living in terror of the nationalist yellow tabloid press.

Europe s Nationalist Night Watch

Noda feared that Ishihara, who was well known for nationalist grandstanding, would try to occupy the islands or find other ways to use them to provoke China.

Nationalist parties are gaining ground.

East Asia s Nationalist Fantasy Islands

Nationalist sentiment is also increasing.

Nationalist feelings, deliberately stirred up in China, Korea, and Japan, are linked to recent history, to be sure, but the politics behind them is different in each country.

Such mixed signals have further inflamed nationalist sentiments in China, and anti Japanese demonstrations have broken out in many Chinese cities, including an attack on the Japanese ambassador s official vehicle.

But a nationalist backlash doomed Yeltsin s efforts.

Syria itself is named the Syrian Arab Republic but I no longer consider myself a Syrian nationalist, let alone an Arab nationalist.

After the Nationalist government collapsed in 1949, Mao s New China emerged. Almost immediately, he launched another campaign to suppress counter revolutionaries, berating one province for being too lenient, not killing enough.

The nationalist government that followed, which established the Republic of China, also failed to address the tension between centralization and fragmentation what the macro historian Ray Huang called China s mathematical unmanageability.

In practice, Xi may well prove to be a nationalist certainly, his generation, like the founding fathers of the People s Republic, dreams of turning China into a stronger, more prosperous country.

His position in the nationalist opposition was weak.

In fact, the more openly China has embraced market capitalism, the more nationalist it has become, encouraged by its leaders need for an alternative to Marxist dogma as a source of political legitimacy.

This is not because China poses a great military threat war with the United States, or even Japan, is only a fantasy in the minds of a few ultra nationalist cranks and paranoiacs.

The big French retailer Carrefour has seen protests at its stores all over China by nationalist activists incensed by the protests that took place in Paris when the Olympic torch passed through the city.

Nor were his conservative, nationalist, and pro American credentials damaged.

Kremlin support has made Serbia s nationalist intransigence over Kosovo effective.

But the nationalist genie, once released, is not easily controlled.

Nationalist excesses have tended to lead Europe to catastrophic wars.

But now the nationalist bug has infected the EU itself.

The nationalist warhorse Zhirinovskiy looks old and lifeless compared to Rogozin.

Čović was subsequently elected president of this main Croat nationalist party.

The Revolution of 1911 was inspired by the example of Japan s Meiji Restoration and, because early twentieth century Japan was stridently nationalistic, the new China that emerged from its image was constructed on nationalist principles as well.

Meanwhile, domestic tension in China particularly the scandal surrounding the purge of former Chongqing Communist Party boss Bo Xilai and the country s economic slowdown has probably prompted the government to play the nationalist card more forcefully than usual.

With nationalist sentiment aroused, few Chinese are asking why the violence occurred.

This nationalist minded rhetoric has returned in the financial crisis of 2007.

This, however, led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements.

The presence of foreign troops creates a stimulus for nationalist and jihadist responses.

MOSCOW In Russia, 2010 ended with an unprecedented upsurge of ultra nationalist violence.

It is liberal, and despises any sort of fanaticism, whether orthodox or nationalist.

A sclerotic, atavistic, nationalist, and inward looking Japan can only aggravate the situation.

It would be anti bureaucrat, anti oligarch, anti West, and staunchly pro nationalist.