chinese ships in disputed waters on china's national day :Japan

[onionkiller]

Chinese ships in disputed waters on
China's National Day: Japan
AFP | Oct 1, 2013, 01.33PM IST
TOKYO: Chinese ships sailed into
Tokyo-controlled waters on Tuesday
as Beijing celebrated its National
Day and as Japan and the United
States prepare for talks on their
defence pact.
Four vessels from the Chinese
coastguard entered the 12-nautical-
mile territorial waters of the Senkaku
islands at around 9.00am (0000
GMT) and stayed for about six hours
before leaving, the Japanese
coastguard said.
China calls the islands the Diaoyus
and says they belong to Beijing. The
incursion came as US secretary of
defense Chuck Hagel and secretary of
state John Kerry prepare to head to
Tokyo for a meeting on Thursday
with Japanese counterparts Itsunori
Onodera and Fumio Kishida.
Japan's hawkish Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe wants Tokyo to play a
more self-confident role on the world
stage and for its military to shoulder
more of the burden of the defence
pact with Washington.
The so-called "2+2" meeting will
discuss operational arrangements for
the Tokyo-Washington alliance, which
were last amended in 1997, officials
have said.
The latest incident comes on the
anniversary of the founding of the
People's Republic of China in 1949, a
day marked by a public holiday
throughout the country.
In recent months there have been
fewer incidents than in the opening
stages of the latest row over the
islands, which erupted in September
last year.
Observers say Beijing wants to create
a "new normal" by demonstrating
that Japan no longer has effective
control over the islands. It hopes
that might force Tokyo to the
negotiating table over their future —
something Japan has repeatedly
ruled out.
Tokyo is not prepared even formally
to acknowledge the existence of any
dispute.
Asia-watchers say the tense stand-off
could erupt into a limited armed
conflict, with some warning that it
may even draw the United States in.
So far there has been little
diplomatic headway on finding a
solution, although both sides have
made qualified offers of talks.
The long-running dispute over the
ownership of the islands flared into
a bitter row about a year ago when
Tokyo nationalized part of the chain.

source. timesofindia.com

 

[HongWu]

Yes, we are in the Diaoyu Islands, the South China Sea, Ladakh and Southern Tibet on this national day

 

[Obambam]

if we can get into Nippon controlled territory, then it must be very poorly controlled.

 

[HongWu]

We came, we saw, we conquered.

 

[DoTell]

The Japanese should just tell their Indian media cheerleaders to keep a copy of the news so that next time they can repost it with a different date. We are there to stay, so no need to rewrite the same garbage every time