vogel list of reasons why china japan relationship declined from 1992

dispute over senkaku/diaoyu islands

loss of key bridge builders in both governments eg china's deng and japan's tanaka

collapse of soviet union- china japan us had shares reason to cooperate against soviet union until its collapse 1991

reduced importance of japanese assistance

president lee teng-hui and japans links to taiwanese localism

chinese fears of japanese military revival after gulf war - (when gulf war ended 1991 usa critical of japan which imported so  much oil from gulf for not contributing more to the war effort)

China's exceptional rise 1993-2001- in 1993 china's gdp was only 443 bn$ whereas japan with tenth of population of china had 10 times bigger gdp of 4.4 trillion $-but that year china grew at rate of 14% and seemed likely to grow annually at over 10% whilst japan was stagnating after the bubble burst in 1989-after 1997 when japan suffered in asian financial crisis but china did not, chinese officials were confident their economic an d;political system was working better than japans and china's entry into the world trade organisation 2001 further boosted china's confidence