Tensions in Asia: Chinese and Japanese coast guards warn on disputed islands

Beijing said Chinese coast guard boats chased five Japanese vessels out of disputed waters in the East China Sea surrounding the Diaoyu Islands, an archipelago whose sovereignty is disputed between Japan and Taiwan.

Chinese Coast Guard spokesman Gan Yu said late last night that Japanese ships, including the research vessel Shinsei Maru, “illegally” entered Chinese territorial waters. China off the Diaoyu Islands, known in Japan as the Senkaku.

China’s coast guard vessels have taken “necessary control measures,” Gang said, adding that they were carrying out “legitimate protection of maritime rights and law enforcement activities” in the area, which China Consider your jurisdiction.

In turn, he called Japan immediately stop “all illegal activities” in the area and ensure that “similar incidents” do not happen again.

For its part, the Japanese Coast Guard said that four Chinese ships tried to approach a private vessel registered in Japan in the waters surrounding the archipelago, but the warning was issued by Japanese patrol boats, according to the Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post.

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Conflict over the Diaoyu/Senkaku River conquered Japan after the war with China in 1894-95, has intensified in recent years, as a result of the fact that in September 2012 Japan nationalize the lands of three of them.

Located in the sea China To the east, about 150 kilometers northeast of Taiwan, which also claims sovereignty, these uninhabited islands cover about seven square kilometers and are thought to have important oil or gas deposits in their adjacent waters.

Last July Japan published the last issue of his Libro de Defensa, in which he devotes a section to detailing the greatest activity China in a region where he claims he can try to unilaterally change the “status quo” in the area, citing a territorial conflict between the two countries over these islands.

Chinathrough his Ministry of Defense spokesman, Wu Qian immediately refuted the claims in the report that he was “ignorant of the facts and full of prejudice”, noting that Japan made “irresponsible comments” and exaggerated the “military threat China”.

(As reported by EFE)

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