I’d like to change some money furadantin suspension The issue of Chinese sovereignty over the islands has in many ways come to define the foreign policy of China's new leader Xi Jinping – even though this crisis began before he took the top job. Portraying China as newly assertive and unafraid plays well here. Anti-Japanese sentiment in China is widespread. All of which makes it easy to see why Xi's more muscular, and increasingly militarised stance towards Japan would be popular at home.