Chinese ships near disputed islands of Japan

[tonioyantao]

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what is going on? seems like china is getting on everyones nerve these days.
Chinese ships near disputed islands: Japan - Yahoo! News Singapore


The Japanese coastguard said three Chinese patrol boats had approached a chain of islands at the centre of a bitter territorial dispute Wednesday in a move that could inflame tensions.

The vessels entered Japanese waters around the islands in the East China Sea known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese early morning, the coastguard said.

The trio of Chinese ships were identified as Yuzheng 35001, Yuzheng 204 and Yuzheng 202, it said, adding that "we are demanding that the ships leave our nation's territorial waters".

"The same communication is being made by the foreign ministry, via diplomatic channels," the coastguard added.

The incident comes amid increasingly sore relations over the islands, which lie in rich fishing grounds and may contain valuable mineral reserves, with Tokyo earlier saying it may buy the chain from their private Japanese owner.

The Tokyo metropolitan government said it had already collected more than 1.3 billion yen ($16.3 million) in donations from across the country to fund the purchase.

Beijing has shot back that Japan has no right to buy the islands.

Japanese and Chinese foreign ministers were expected to meet later Wednesday on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) forum in Phnom Penh.

The waters around the disputed islands have been scene of previous territorial spats, including the arrest of a Chinese trawlerman in late 2010 when he rammed his boat into two Japanese patrol boats.

The latest chapter in the ongoing spat comes as a separate report in Japan's top-selling Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper implicated a senior member of China's People's Liberation Army in a cyberattack on Japan's parliament last year.

An email address tied to the unnamed man was allegedly used as a destination for stolen data from the attack which reports had earlier said were launched from a China-based server.

[pepponeskie]

grabeha, murag irong buang naman ni sila.

ni ingun ra ba ang China nga dili sila gusto hisgotan sa ASEAN all about sa territorial disputes nila.

[balipseyev]

That's why the Japanese are so eager to help us in our Maritime Patrol capability...

[tonioyantao]

there is an old saying. "there is strength in numbers" we and they need the help we can get. from the far north as japan, korea and down to the philippines, taiwan, brunei, malaysia, vietnam.

[john_yo]

na lukop naman lang ni sila oi, ma dugay mo ingon na pod ni sila na ilaha ang japan, lol

[æRLO]

No matter how big China is, it cannot afford to take on more than 1 or 2 enemies at once. That would be a big military blunder waiting to happen. They're stirring up too many beehives too fast.

[DEMONOCIETY]

lami na lagi ni sila unhan ug pika aron motagam

[ingkiang]

gamay nlang jud kulang ani, nangita jud ni ug bikil ang china....

[DEMONOCIETY]

possible nga pwede pud mouna ang intsik ug strike sa japan ky naa ra ba jud ni silay dumot dili ni kalimot ang intsik sa garas na gibuhat sa japan before maong init jud ng 2.

bisan sa sports lang na soccer napildi ang intsik sa japan nagbinatuay man gani grabe d sila kadawat sa pildi.

[b1 huck]

their aggressiveness will melt them down...