事实上，在多个月日渐升级的军事动作后 — — 最引人关注的便是单方面宣布了覆盖包括争议领土在内的广大南海海域的防空识别区 — — 中国与日本的关系降到了历史冰点。
Indeed, after many months of increasingly forceful military moves – most notably, the unilateral declaration of an air-defense identification zone covering a large swath of the South China Sea, including disputed territories – China’s ties with Japan reached an all-time low.