Japan protests Chinese gas operation in disputed sea

[Hindustani78]

Japan protests Chinese gas operation in disputed sea | Zee News
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 16:20


Tokyo: Japan said today it has lodged a protest after uncovering evidence that China has started extracting gas in a disputed area near their border in the East China Sea.


Japan suspects China now has seven drilling rigs in operation out of 16 it has positioned in the disputed waters, officials said, the latest twist in a row over gasfields in waters claimed by the two countries.

"We are protesting with the Chinese side through a diplomatic channel," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference.

"It is extremely regrettable that the Chinese side... Has unilaterally gone ahead with the development while the border has not yet been settled," Suga said.

Japan and China agreed in June 2008 jointly to develop the undersea reserves in the disputed area, with a ban on individual drilling.

"China needs to abandon its unique obsolete argument, that no other countries adopt, that no international rulings have admitted -- that its rights extend along the continental shelf" to near Japan's southern Okinawa islet chain, a senior foreign ministry official told reporters on condition of anonymity.

China is also embroiled in a separate row with Japan over disputed islands elsewhere in the East China Sea.

The islands are controlled by Tokyo, which calls them the Senkakus, which Beijing claims them as the Diaoyus. Chinese ships and aircraft regularly test Japanese forces in the area.

In the South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety, it has disputes with several other nations.



AFP

 

[Zsari]

Japan protests Chinese gas operation in disputed sea | Zee News
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 16:20


Tokyo: Japan said today it has lodged a protest after uncovering evidence that China has started extracting gas in a disputed area near their border in the East China Sea.


Japan suspects China now has seven drilling rigs in operation out of 16 it has positioned in the disputed waters, officials said, the latest twist in a row over gasfields in waters claimed by the two countries.

"We are protesting with the Chinese side through a diplomatic channel," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference.

"It is extremely regrettable that the Chinese side... Has unilaterally gone ahead with the development while the border has not yet been settled," Suga said.

Japan and China agreed in June 2008 jointly to develop the undersea reserves in the disputed area, with a ban on individual drilling.

"China needs to abandon its unique obsolete argument, that no other countries adopt, that no international rulings have admitted -- that its rights extend along the continental shelf" to near Japan's southern Okinawa islet chain, a senior foreign ministry official told reporters on condition of anonymity.

China is also embroiled in a separate row with Japan over disputed islands elsewhere in the East China Sea.

The islands are controlled by Tokyo, which calls them the Senkakus, which Beijing claims them as the Diaoyus. Chinese ships and aircraft regularly test Japanese forces in the area.

In the South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety, it has disputes with several other nations.



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Correction. None of the drilling rigs are in the disputed water.

 

[HongWu002]

LOL they keep crying too afraid to send their own gas platform. First we spank Viets with platform 981. Now we spank Japan.

 

[Xenophon]

LOL they keep crying too afraid to send their own gas platform. First we spank Viets with platform 981. Now we spank Japan.

Where is the best place to learn kung fu in china?

 

[soundwave1987]

That's cute, we are mining the ECS gas and oil in our rightful water since 2006 yet they have complained about it for 10 years. We did nothing wrong to harvest resources in our own territory and have definitely no inttention to stop, so the "protest" is both absurd and meaningless. Japan should accept the fact that China is capable of ignoring any unreasonable request from anyone, if you feel like been "bullied", good, just learn to live with that.

 

[IsaacNewton]

I have read some article that Japan doesn't build platforms in its own boarder because it is simply uneconomical to send gas that far to Japan's mainland. Instead, Japan asked China to give Japan a percentage of its profit because China is sucking gas from Japan's side as well. Eventually, Hu Jintao made some agreement with Japan to ease tension for Olympic games in 2008, but Japan is slow to act. It has been 7 years and Japan has still not made any effort to develop the area so China went ahead.

I'm sure if China shares a bit of its profit, the issue will resolve.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

LOL they keep crying too afraid to send their own gas platform. First we spank Viets with platform 981. Now we spank Japan.

And then you spank yourselves.

 

[Sanchez]

I have read some article that Japan doesn't build platforms in its own boarder because it is simply uneconomical to send gas that far to Japan's mainland. Instead, Japan asked China to give Japan a percentage of its profit because China is sucking gas from Japan's side as well. Eventually, Hu Jintao made some agreement with Japan to ease tension for Olympic games in 2008, but Japan is slow to act. It has been 7 years and Japan has still not made any effort to develop the area so China went ahead.

I'm sure if China shares a bit of its profit, the issue will resolve.

You don't really know what China and Japan dispute on this matter, do you?

 

[soundwave1987]

And then you spank yourselves.

We do not "spank" anyone, it's in our territory, we just simply ignore their noise for like 10 years.

I have read some article that Japan doesn't build platforms in its own boarder because it is simply uneconomical to send gas that far to Japan's mainland. Instead, Japan asked China to give Japan a percentage of its profit because China is sucking gas from Japan's side as well. Eventually, Hu Jintao made some agreement with Japan to ease tension for Olympic games in 2008, but Japan is slow to act. It has been 7 years and Japan has still not made any effort to develop the area so China went ahead.

I'm sure if China shares a bit of its profit, the issue will resolve.

Or we can talk like we’d like to share and do it the other way, if Japan says we are sucking up their resources ok just prove it, how much percentages are from Japanese side? And who says China agreed the equidistance line that Japan stands for? If they can not convince us ok then there's no profit for Japan.

 

[Zsari]

I have read some article that Japan doesn't build platforms in its own boarder because it is simply uneconomical to send gas that far to Japan's mainland. Instead, Japan asked China to give Japan a percentage of its profit because China is sucking gas from Japan's side as well. Eventually, Hu Jintao made some agreement with Japan to ease tension for Olympic games in 2008, but Japan is slow to act. It has been 7 years and Japan has still not made any effort to develop the area so China went ahead.

Japan doesn't build platforms because they can't. The gas field doesn't extend into undisputed Japanese EEZ, that in order for Japan to exploit the resource, they'll have to do it in disputed water, which China is not doing nor needs to be doing. Besides past the Chinese undisputed EEZ, water is much deeper, thus making drilling uneconomical.

We do not "spank" anyone, it's in our territory, we just simply ignore their noise for like 10 years.


Or we can talk like we’d like to share and do it the other way, if Japan says we are sucking up their resources ok just prove it, how much percentages are from Japanese side? And who says China agreed the equidistance line that Japan stands for? If they can not convince us ok then there's no profit for Japan.

Since Diaoyu island is used as a basis for Japanese calculation of its equidistance line, of course China will not accept that.

 

[Sommer]

Where is the best place to learn kung fu in china?

Sorry to OP. I think it's Zhengzhou郑州， where Shaolin Temple is.
Zhengzhou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Huan]

Correction. None of the drilling rigs are in the disputed water.

For a rising superpower, I think that boundary line should be considered completely unacceptable, which is cutting off China from the rest of the Pacific Ocean. I do not know why your leaders in China continue to let Japan stand between you and the Pacific Ocean with Japan's ridiculous ADIZ and her island chains.

 

[21stCentury]

For a rising superpower, I think that boundary line should be considered completely unacceptable, which is cutting off China from the rest of the Pacific Ocean. I do not know why your leaders in China continue to let Japan stand between you and the Pacific Ocean with Japan's ridiculous ADIZ and her island chains.

Absolutely correct. China by no means should be restricted within the Pacific Ocean. China must have access to the entire Pacific Ocean and beyond, which by current geopolitical maneuvers by Beijing is exactly where we are headed.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Absolutely correct. China by no means should be restricted within the Pacific Ocean. China must have access to the entire Pacific Ocean and beyond, which by current geopolitical maneuvers by Beijing is exactly where we are headed.

Well then China needs to reclaim Taiwan fast.

 

[HongWu002]

Well then China needs to reclaim Taiwan fast.

We are already mass producing Zubr to finish the Taiwan reunification job by 2020.

And then you spank yourselves.

LOL at Indian burning with jealousy!