SEOUL – Chinese, South Korean, and Japanese diplomats recently took to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly to reassert their countries’ positions on the territorial issues surrounding several small islands in the seas of East Asia. But the composed manner in which they delivered their remarks belied their countries’ long-simmering tensions over the islands, which have come to a near boil in the last few months.
首尔—中国、韩国和日本外交官最近纷纷走上联合国大会的讲台，申述各自国家在东亚海域诸小道的领土主张。但他们陈述的方式掩盖了各自国家在这些岛屿问题上由来已久的怨气，在过去几个月中，这种怨气几乎喷发。