Taiwanese Activists Wave PRC Flag at Senkaku Islands
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Earlier this week, a Taiwanese fishing boat entered Japanese territorial water and tried to reach the Senkaku Islands. Japanese coast guard ships intercepted it and prevented its passengers from landing on the islands.
There was also a minor collision between a Taiwanese coast guard ship that was escorting the fishing boat and a Japanese coast guard ship that was protecting the Senkakus.
The Taiwanese vessel was part of a small flotilla that had been accompanying a fishing boat carrying at least nine activists to waters near islands known as Diaoyu in Chinese and Senkaku in Japanese.
One of the four Taiwanese patrol ships carried a Japanese-language banner reading: “This is territory of the Republic of China,” a Japanese coastguard official said.
The five Taiwanese vessels entered waters Japan claims as its territory shortly after 7 am (2200 GMT) and left the area by noon Wednesday, the official said.
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Earlier this week, a Taiwanese fishing boat entered Japanese territorial water and tried to reach the Senkaku Islands. Japanese coast guard ships intercepted it and prevented its passengers from landing on the islands.
There was also a minor collision between a Taiwanese coast guard ship that was escorting the fishing boat and a Japanese coast guard ship that was protecting the Senkakus.
The Taiwanese vessel was part of a small flotilla that had been accompanying a fishing boat carrying at least nine activists to waters near islands known as Diaoyu in Chinese and Senkaku in Japanese.
One of the four Taiwanese patrol ships carried a Japanese-language banner reading: “This is territory of the Republic of China,” a Japanese coastguard official said.
The five Taiwanese vessels entered waters Japan claims as its territory shortly after 7 am (2200 GMT) and left the area by noon Wednesday, the official said.
In a news conference on the docks shortly after stepping ashore, Mr. Huang said:
“We left in a hurry and forgot to bring the flag of Taiwan, so we displayed the five-star flag instead.”
China’s official Xinhua News Agency quoted Mr. Huang as saying that he intended to plant the flag on an island, but with the Japanese coast guard bearing down on his vessel he dropped it into the sea instead.
Mr. Huang called for cooperation between Taiwan and China to reclaim the Diaoyu Islands, known by Japan as the Senkaku Islands.
Many mainland Internet users are singing the praises of Mr. Huang. “If there’s a flag, there’s a heart, then there is presence and energy, the sky is the limit,” said one comment left on the Phoenix TV website.