From Ladakh to Japan’s Senkaku Islands, ‘bully’ China is in an overdrive

China complained to Japan early this month about its fishing boats moving in the vicinity of Senkaku islands in the East China Sea.  Beijing also wanted Japan to cancel the resolution passed by the Ishigaki city assembly last month to change the name of the southern Japan area from Tonoshiro to Tonoshiro Senkaku. Japan, as expected, has told off China. Beijing’s latest complaint to Tokyo falls into a pattern and is part of its tactic to push the envelope with its neighbours - one step at a time. In the East China Sea, the demarche was d…