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Image: China & Taiwan: 2 sisters, Large propaganda board with China and Taiwan depicted as two sisters, happily holding each other in Xiamen, PRC: 思归照统一，两岸一家亲, kattebelletje, CC BY-NC 2.0
Later this week we will be providing our usual round up of events in the world of Sino-Cambodian relations, but today we take a break to pose a question that my own research currently examines, what I call the "Bates Question."
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Image: An allegory of the New fighting the Old in early Meiji Japan, circa 1870; Source: Printing Museum News N36
The involvement of Japanese experts in the preparation of the new Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procedure and other requisite legal instruments (so as to ensure a fully functional infrastructure for the recognition of contracts, contract enforcement, the protection of property rights, the enshrining individual rights and the rule of law, into legal code) is reflective of a benign foreign policy adopted by Japan that is aimed at building symbiotic and synergistic relationships with her partners.
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