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China's Incoming Leader Pledges Not to Bargain on Disputed Territory
New York Times
By CHRIS BUCKLEY
Published: January 29, 2013

HONG KONG — China will never bargain over what it deems to be “core” territorial and security interests, the country’s top leader, Xi Jinping, said in his first published speech setting out his foreign policy views since taking over as head of the Communist Party.

At a time of volatile tensions with Japan and other Asian neighbors over rival maritime claims, Mr. Xi laid out to the Communist Party’s elite Politburo some of the principles likely to shape Chinese diplomacy, seeking to balance vows of commitment to peace with a warning that certain demands are sacrosanct to Beijing.

At the heart of that message was Mr. Xi’s invocation of “core national interests,” a sweeping and ill-defined term that he and other senior Chinese officials have used to refer to security and sovereignty interests that they say are not negotiable. These include quelling independence movements in Tibet and the far western region of Xinjiang and eventually bringing the island of Taiwan under Chinese sovereignty.

“No foreign country should ever nurse hopes that we will bargain over our core national interests,” Mr. Xi said at the meeting on Monday, according to an account published on Tuesday by the state-run Xinhua news agency. “Nor should they nurse hopes that we will swallow the bitter fruit of harm to our country’s sovereignty, security and development interests.”

His published comments did not mention China’s quarrel with Japan over an outcrop of rocky islands in the East China Sea, or any other specific foreign policy issues. But his words could reinforce nationalist expectations in China and anxieties abroad that he will press territorial claims more determinedly than did his predecessor, Hu Jintao. Mr. Hu remains state president until March, when the national parliament will install Mr. Xi in that post.

“Yes, it’s a tougher policy, saying that we’re not trading our core interests,” said Shen Dingli, director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Mr. Xi’s comments were in the bounds of established Chinese policy, but he appears more willing than his predecessors to show an assertive position on territorial issues, said Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing.

“These are the basic principles, just stated more clearly,” Mr. Jin said. “Now China’s strength is greater and domestic audiences are more focused on foreign policy, hence the talk of resolute protection.”

During a visit to the United States a year ago, Mr. Xi also demanded respect for China’s “core national interests.” There has been controversy in Chinese policy circles in recent years over how to define core interests beyond the specific territorial issues involving Tibet, Xinjiang and Taiwan. Starting in 2009, some senior officials began pressing a definition of those interests that covered broader territorial claims, while some policy advisers argued that expanding the concept could entangle Beijing in needless and costly disputes.

The months before and since Mr. Xi was appointed Communist Party leader in November have been overshadowed by the feud between China and Japan over the East China Sea islands, known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan. Starting in August and continuing for several weeks, torrid and sometimes violent protests spread across dozens of Chinese cities after activists from both sides tried to land on the islands and the Japanese government responded to the dispute by buying islands that were in private Japanese hands.

Japan has held the islands for more than a century. But China says it has legitimate title to them, and recently has sent government ships and planes to skirt the islands and assert its claim. This month, tensions spiked when both countries sent fighter jets over the East China Sea at the same time.

China is also locked in disputes with Southeast Asian countries, especially the Philippines and Vietnam, over Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea that span busy shipping lanes, fishing grounds and potentially valuable gas and oil reserves.

Mr. Xi, who is 59 and considered likely to lead China for the next decade, has urged Chinese military forces to focus on training for possible conflict and stamp out lax discipline and corruption.
 
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Japan coast guard says detains Chinese fishing boat near Okinawa - Yahoo! News
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Japan's coast guard
detained a Chinese fishing boat near the southern
Japanese island of Okinawa on Saturday and
arrested the captain for collecting coral illegally, a
coast guard official said. The vessel was detained off Miyako Island, some
150 km (95 miles) from islands in the East China
Sea at the centre of a territorial dispute between
the two countries, and about 400 km (250 miles)
east of Taipei. A long-simmering row over the East China Sea
islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the
Diaoyu in China, has in recent months escalated to
the point where both sides have scrambled
fighter jets while patrol ships shadow each other
in nearby seas. In September 2010, the arrest of a Chinese
trawler captain by the Japanese coast guard near
the disputed islands triggered a barrage of strong
words from Beijing and protests in front of
Japanese diplomatic missions. The Japanese coast guard official said on Saturday
the captain of the boat was arrested for alleged
violation of Japanese law to protect the country's
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) from unauthorized
fishing. The vessel was found collecting coral inside the
EEZ, 46 km east-northeast of Miyako island, east of
Ishigaki, the official said. The boat and crew of 12 people were being
taken to Miyako island. China's official Xinhua news agency, quoting the
Chinese Consulate General in the city of Fukuoka,
said the vessel had been detained for "alleged
unauthorized coral fishing". "The consulate has urged the Japanese side to
ensure the safety of the Chinese sailors and will
visit the captain when he arrives at Miyako,"
Xinhua reported.
 
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Japan's PM vows to defend islands from China - Indian Express
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Japan's prime minister has vowed to defend
disputed remote islands from escalating threat
from China. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on
Japan's Self-Defense Forces on southern Japan on
Saturday, saying the disputed islands in the East
China Sea are under increasing threat. Abe said he will defend them ''at all costs.'' The
uninhabited islands are controlled by Japan but
also claimed by China. Japan's nationalization of the
islands in September triggered violent protests
across China, hurting Japanese companies there
and the economy. China has sent surveillance ships regularly to
waters near the islands, and aircraft from the two
sides have trailed each other, raising the risk of
missteps that could trigger a clash. Japan has recently launched diplomatic efforts to
ease tensions, with China-friendly officials visiting
Beijing for
 
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nothing new,that's the official stance of both sides,why still posting,lol
 
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There is no place called Okinawa in this planet. Its real name is 琉球, which belongs to China and occupied by Japanese by force hundred years ago. Recently people livin on the island practicing traditinal Chinese culture and way of living .
Time to take back 琉球 from Japanese devil's hand. Why Filipinos clown jump upside and down in this thread? When you back at Huang Yan Island? May be never.
 
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Shinzo Abe will step down at the end of year, my word!

His grandpa is a Japanese Nazi. What you gonna expect from a grandson of a Nazi? Brutal stupid!
 
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Sir that's a monkey get your insult right? See can't even do that properly!:rofl: man ignorance is bless as they say.
 
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There is no place called Okinawa in this planet. Its real name is 琉球, which belongs to China and occupied by Japanese by force hundred years ago. Recently people livin on the island practicing traditinal Chinese culture and way of living .
You are joking. The fact that Okinawa was influenced by Chinese cultures does not make it to a Chinese land.
Time to take back 琉球 from Japanese devil's hand.
How?
Why Filipinos clown jump upside and down in this thread? When you back at Huang Yan Island? May be never.
This thread is Chinese exclusively, really? Philippines is taking you to an international court amid the islands dispute.
 
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Sir that's a monkey get your insult right? See can't even do that properly!:rofl: man ignorance is bless as they say.

This thread is about Japan and China. Not us.

You are joking. The fact that Okinawa was influenced by Chinese cultures does not make it to a Chinese land.

How?

This thread is Chinese exclusively, really? Philippines is taking you to an international court amid the islands dispute.

How is Vietnam part of this.
 
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Their is no us chinese! stop using my country's flag. gago ka pala hindi ka na man pilipino wag na wag gagamitin ng watawat nami tang ina mo!
 
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Their is no us chinese! stop using my country's flag. gago ka pala hindi ka na man pilipino wag na wag gagamitin ng watawat nami tang ina mo!

I'm not even Chinese. Call me Chinese I call you Vietnamese. We are from the same nation but different opinions.
 
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