China lambastes Japan after Taiwan boat confrontation

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China lambastes Japan after Taiwan boat confrontation

By Ben Blanchard in Beijiing and Yoko Kubota in Tokyo | Reuters – 2 hours 44

minutes ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry lambasted Japan on Wednesday after

a confrontation between a Taiwanese fishing boat and a Japanese coast guard

vessel near a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.

" The Diaoyu Islands and attached islets have been Chinese territory since

ancient times, and China has incontrovertible sovereignty over them, " ministry

spokesman Hong Lei said in a brief statement on the ministry's website

(www.mfa.gov.cn).

" Any actions taken by Japan in the seas around the Diaoyu Islands are illegal

and invalid, " he added, referring to the incident with the fishing boat.

China and Japan have bickered for years over the group of uninhabited islets in

the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, which are

also claimed by Taiwan.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news conference in Tokyo that

the Japanese Coast Guard found a Taiwanese fishing boat approaching the islands

and warned the boat not to enter Japanese waters.

" From the viewpoints of history and international law, there is no doubt that

the Senkaku islands are our inherent territory, " Edano said.

The Japanese Coast Guard could not be reached for comment.

Japan's Yomiuri newspaper said that the boat was carrying several activists

calling for the assertion of Taiwan's sovereign rights over the islands, and

that it left the area later on Wednesday morning.

China considers self-ruled and democratic Taiwan part of its territory, and has

in the past weighed in over disputes between Taiwanese and Japanese ships around

the islands.

Activists from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong periodically try and visit the seas

around the islands, or even the islands themselves, to promote sovereignty

claims.

In September 2010, Japan detained a Chinese trawler captain after his boat

collided with Japanese coastguard ships near the isles. Beijing canceled

diplomatic meetings with Tokyo in protest until he was released.

The two countries are also at odds over China's exploration for natural gas in

the same seas. In 2008, they agreed to resolve the feud by jointly developing

gas fields.

But progress has been slow and Japan has accused China of drilling for gas in

violation of the deal.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard in Beijiing and Yoko Kubota in Tokyo; Editing by

Yoko Nishikawa)

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A fight is coming over there and if the US gets involved or not, it will cause trouble. This is because of all the trade we do with these nations, especially China.

Its also interesting in the anime Ghost in the Shell that there was an Asian war sometime in the 2010's, part of two global wars.

In a message dated 6/29/2011 1:32:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

China lambastes Japan after Taiwan boat confrontation

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A fight is coming over there and if the US gets involved or not, it will cause trouble. This is because of all the trade we do with these nations, especially China.

Its also interesting in the anime Ghost in the Shell that there was an Asian war sometime in the 2010's, part of two global wars.

In a message dated 6/29/2011 1:32:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

China lambastes Japan after Taiwan boat confrontation