East China Sea

China's military 'odds and ends' no threat to Japan

1 Mar 2013

The former head of Japan's air force, who was fired for saying his nation needed nuclear weapons and that China benefited from Japanese occupation, has resurfaced to dismiss the threat posed by a...

Japan scrambles fighters to meet China plane

28 Feb 2013

Japan scrambled fighter jets on Thursday to head off a Chinese government plane flying towards disputed islands in the East China Sea, the defence ministry said.

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Chinese navy takes delivery of new stealth frigate

26 Feb 2013

China’s navy has taken delivery of a new type of stealth frigate that is expected to bolster the country’s maritime defences amid territorial disputes, state media reported on Tuesday.

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Japan coastguard says more China ships in disputed waters

24 Feb 2013

Japan said three Chinese surveillance ships entered its territorial waters off disputed East China Sea islands on Sunday, hours after one of Beijing’s fisheries patrol boats sailed into the zone...

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Japan stages rally over disputed islands with South Korea

22 Feb 2013

Japan held an annual rally on Friday over Tokyo’s claim to a set of tiny islands controlled by South Korea, which has been at the centre of a long-standing territorial feud.

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China ships in disputed waters, says Japan coastguard

Chinese government ships were in waters around disputed East China Sea islands on Monday, Japan’s coastguard said, as a senior Japanese diplomat prepared for meetings in Beijing aimed at mending...

Beijing ramps up propaganda war to bolster Diaoyus claim

Beijing has stepped up its propaganda efforts to show its sovereignty over disputed islands in the East China Sea as tensions between China and Japan linger. In a rare move, state-run China...

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Chinese leaders must keep a brash and reckless PLA in check - or risk war

Some four years before the outbreak of the first world war, British author and politician Norman Angell published The Great Illusion, a best-seller that argued that war was obsolete between...

MARITIME DISPUTE

Japan accuses Beijing of sending surveillance vessels to Diaoyus

Japan's coastguard said four Chinese maritime surveillance ships had been spotted on Sunday in waters around the disputed Diaoyu Islands, known as the Senkakus in Japan.

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TERRITORIAL DISPUTE

China ships in disputed Diaoyu waters as tension runs high

Four Chinese ships were spotted on Sunday in disputed East China Sea waters, Japanese officials said, as Tokyo considered disclosing video footage and pictures as evidence of a Chinese frigate’s...

China accuses Japan of ‘smear’ over radar incident

Beijing accused Tokyo on Thursday of mounting a smear campaign after Japan said a Chinese frigate had locked its weapons-targeting radar on a Japanese warship in a “threat of force”.