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Recent frictions between China and its neighbors in east and south-east Asia mostly originate from maritime disputes.
Of these countries, Japan has been the most active when it comes to voicing its opposition to China.
On Thursday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country would adopt a firm stance on the issue of China’s oil and gas exploration in the East China Sea. This was after his Liberal Democratic Party submitted to the Japanese government some tough new proposals on the matter.
The LDP recommended that the Japanese Government ask the Chinese side to remove construction materials for the new facility China is building in the area.
Tokyo had lodged a protest with Beijing early in July over the building of new oil and gas development facilities at the Chunxiao gas field in the vicinity of the "medium line" between the two countries.
The protest was rejected by China, as it has never accepted the medium line unilaterally claimed by Japan.
The LDP said in its proposals that China and Japan should start talks immediately to discuss how to develop fields not covered by a 2008 bilateral agreement。
In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that since Japan caused the current difficult situation in bilateral relations, it was incumbent upon it to correct its mistakes and make substantial efforts to get rid of the obstacles in the way of the development of bilateral relationship.
- Meanwhile, on Monday, the US Senate approved a resolution, "reaffirming the strong support of the United States for the peaceful resolution of territorial, sovereign and jurisdictional disputes in the Asia-Pacific maritime domains."
China reacted strongly to the resolution. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, "The above resolution proposed by a minority of senators took heed of neither history nor facts, unjustifiably blaming China and sending the wrong message."
China has urged relevant US senators to respect the facts and correct their mistakes so as to not make matters and the regional situation more complicated.
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3/8/13
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Iles Senkaku : l'ambassadeur chinois convoqué à Tokyo....
ReplyDeleteL'ambassadeur chinois à Tokyo a été convoqué, jeudi 8 août, à la suite de la présence prolongée de navires gouvernementaux chinois dans les eaux territoriales de l'archipel des Senkaku.
Quatre navires des gardes-côtes chinois sont en effet entrés mercredi dans les eaux territoriales de ces îles en mer de Chine orientale revendiquées par la Chine sous le nom de Diaoyu, et s'y trouvaient encore jeudi, selon Tokyo. Le directeur général des affaires Asie-Océanie a remis une protestation au diplomate chinois, qui n'a pas été acceptée par la Chine.
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Les navires gouvernementaux chinois multiplient les incursions dans cette zone depuis la nationalisation japonaise, au mois de septembre, de trois des cinq îles Senkaku, rachetées à leur propriétaire privé japonais. Cette initiative avait déclenché une semaine de manifestations antijaponaises, dont certaines violentes, dans de nombreuses villes de Chine. Les contacts diplomatiques au plus haut niveau ont été gelés depuis.
Les îles Senkaku se situent à 200 kilomètres au nord-est des côtes de Taïwan, qui les revendique également, et 400 kilomètres à l'ouest de l'île d'Okinawa. Outre leur position stratégique, les fonds marins environnants pourraient renfermer des hydrocarbures.
A la fin de juillet, Pékin a regroupé plusieurs unités maritimes (administration des pêches, douanes, surveillance maritime) sous l'appellation unique d'un corps de gardes-côtes. D'après des experts, ce changement risque potentiellement d'accroître le nombre de navires armés dans cette région, où certains redoutent, notamment aux Etats-Unis, un incident sérieux entre Japonais et Chinois.
"IZUMO"
C'est dans ce contexte de tension entre les deux géants asiatiques que le Japon a dévoilé mardi un porte-hélicoptères qui représente le plus gros navire militaire construit par Tokyo depuis la seconde guerre mondiale. Ce navire de 248 mètres baptisé "Izumo" est encore en construction à Yokohama (sud de Tokyo). Son coût devrait atteindre quelque 900 millions d'euros et il pourrait être opérationnel après 2015. La Chine a réagi en se disant "préoccupée par l'expansion constante des équipements militaires du Japon".
Inquiet, de son côté, de la montée en puissance maritime de la Chine – Pékin a mis en service son premier porte-avions fin 2012, le Liaoning – Tokyo a dernièrement dénoncé le "comportement dangereux" de la Chine, notamment autour de l'archipel de la discorde. Le Japon a décidé de constituer une force spéciale de 600 hommes et 12 navires pour surveiller et protéger ces îles.
http://www.lemonde.fr/japon/article/2013/08/08/iles-senkaku-l-ambassadeur-chinois-convoque-a-tokyo_3458764_1492975.html#xtor=RSS-3208
8/8/13
China-Japan views worst in "almost a decade"....
ReplyDeleteBEIJING: Chinese and Japanese people hold the least favourable views of each other's countries for almost a decade, a survey found Thursday as military and diplomatic tensions mount between the Asian giants.
A total of 92.8 per cent of Japanese people have a bad or relatively bad impression of China, while 90.1 per cent of Chinese have similar feelings towards Japan, according to a poll by the state-run China Daily and Japanese thinktank Genron NPO.
Relations between Beijing and Tokyo have plunged in the last year, largely because of a territorial row over islets in the East China Sea.
It was the ninth time the annual survey has been carried out, and the China Daily said the results were "the worst in almost a decade".
"They are even worse than in 2005, when Japan's then prime minister Junichiro Koizumi repeatedly visited the Yasukuni Shrine honouring Japan's war dead, including war criminals from World War II," it added.
The two countries' relationship remains soured by Japan's brutal occupation of China before and during World War II.
Beijing regularly accuses Tokyo of failing to atone for its imperialist past, while Japan says its neighbours use history as a diplomatic stick to beat it with.
The current biggest flashpoint is a group of islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan, which calls them Senkaku, but claimed by Beijing, which knows them as Diaoyu.
On Thursday, Tokyo summoned Beijing's envoy after Chinese government ships entered Japanese territorial waters near the islands, the longest incursion since the simmering dispute erupted again last year when Tokyo nationalised some of them, sparking protests across China.
"The biggest reason for the negative attitude is the Diaoyu Islands, with 53.2 per cent of ordinary Japanese choosing it in the multiple-choice question," the China Daily said......http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-japan-views-worst/769346.html
8/8/13
Ιαπωνική διαμαρτυρία για τα κινεζικά σκάφη γύρω από τα νησιά Σενκάκου....
ReplyDeleteΟ πρεσβευτής της Κίνας στο Τόκιο κλήθηκε σήμερα το πρωί στο υπουργείο Εξωτερικών μετά την παρατεταμένη παρουσία κινεζικών κυβερνητικών σκαφών στα χωρικά ύδατα του αρχιπελάγους των Σενκάκου, το οποίο τελεί υπό ιαπωνική διοίκηση, αλλά διεκδικείται από το Πεκίνο.
Τέσσερα πλοία της κινεζικής ακτοφυλακής εισήλθαν χθες Τετάρτη στα χωρικά ύδατα των νησιών αυτών της Ανατολικής Σινικής Θάλασσας, τα οποία η Κίνα διεκδικεί και ονομάζει Ντιαογιού, και εξακολουθούσαν σήμερα να βρίσκονται εκεί, διευκρίνισε το ιαπωνικό υπουργείο Εξωτερικών.
Ο γενικός διευθυντής υποθέσεων Ασίας/Ωκεανίας επέδωσε διαμαρτυρία στον κινέζο διπλωμάτη, δήλωσε εκπρόσωπος του υπουργείου.
"Η κινεζική πλευρά δήλωσε πως δεν δέχεται αυτή τη διαμαρτυρία", συνέχισε.
Τα κινεζικά κυβερνητικά πλοία πολλαπλασιάζουν τις εισβολές σ΄ αυτή τη ζώνη μετά την εθνικοποίηση, το Σεπτέμβριο, από την Ιαπωνία τριών από τα πέντε νησιά Σενκάκου, τα οποία αγοράσθηκαν από τον ιάπωνα ιδιώτη ιδιοκτήτη τους.
Η πρωτοβουλία αυτή είχε προκαλέσει μια εβδομάδα αντιιαπωνικών διαδηλώσεων, μερικές από τις οποίες ήταν βίαιες, σε πολυάριθμες πόλεις της Κίνας. Οι διπλωματικές επαφές στο υψηλότερο επίπεδο έχουν έκτοτε παγώσει.
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http://www.capital.gr/News.asp?id=1850170
8/8/13
Japan nationalists sail close to disputed island...
ReplyDeleteEAST CHINA SEAS — Five boats carrying about 20 members of a Japanese nationalist group arrived today in waters near tiny islands in the East China Sea at the center of a dispute between Japan and China, a move that risks escalating tensions between the two nations.
Members of the Ganbare Nippon (“Stand Firm, Japan”) group said they did not plan to land on the uninhabited islands, which are known as the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, but wanted to send a message to China.
“We want to show these islands are under Japanese control,” Satoru Mizushima, the right-wing film maker who leads Ganbare Nippon, told activists before departure late on Saturday from a port in Okinawa. “We won’t be doing anything extreme but we need to show the Chinese what we’re made of.”
The islands are located near rich fishing grounds and potentially large oil and gas reserves.
The Ganbare Nippon ships were surrounded by about 10 Japanese coast guard vessels when they approached within 1 nautical mile of the islands on Sunday morning. Coast guard crews in rubber boats urged them to leave through loud speakers.
Last week, Chinese patrol boats entered Japanese territorial waters and stayed there for more than 24 hours, the longest since surveillance around the islands was increased after Japan’s government purchased several of them from a private owner in September last year.
Chinese and Japanese planes and patrol vessels have been playing cat-and-mouse near the islands, raising concerns that an unintended incident could escalate into a military clash.
The trip by the right-wing Japanese group comes days after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine for war dead - seen by critics as a symbol of Japan’s past militarism - on the anniversary of Japan’s World War Two defeat.....http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/japan-nationalist-sail-close-disputed-island
18/8/13
China sees no basis for talks with Japan over islands dispute...
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - China sees no reason to conduct talks with Japan over their dispute about ownership of a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, Chinese deputy foreign minister Li Baodong said on Tuesday.
Li said Japan's call for high-level talks was not genuine, but merely grandstanding.
"A meeting between leaders is not simply for the sake of shaking hands and taking pictures, but to resolve problems," said Li, speaking to reporters ahead of President Xi Jinping's attendance at the G20 summit next week.
"If Japan wants to arrange a meeting to resolve problems, they should stop with the empty talk and doing stuff for show."
Relations between the world's second- and third-largest economies have been strained for months, largely because of the spat over the islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is keen to improve relations and has called for high-level dialogue with China, although he has rejected any conditions on talks and China has shown no inclination to even want talks.
Moves by certain Japanese politicians to deny the country's wartime past also do not help, he added.
"Under these conditions, how can we organize the kind of leaders summit that Japan wants?" Li said.
China reacted with fury earlier this month after Japan's Abe sent an offering to a shrine for war dead, which also honors war criminals, while cabinet members visited it in person.
China suffered under Japanese rule, with parts of the country occupied from the 1930s. Japanese leaders have apologized in the past but many in China doubt the sincerity of the apologies, partly because of contradictory remarks by politicians.
"What Japan has to do now is show vision and courage, properly face up to history and take a proper attitude and real actions to get rid of the obstacles which exist for the healthy development of bilateral ties," Li said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/27/us-china-japan-idUSBRE97Q02H20130827?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
27/8/13
Trois navires chinois dans les eaux territoriales des Senkaku...
ReplyDeleteTrois navires des garde-côtes chinois sont à nouveau entrés, mardi 27 août, dans les eaux territoriales d'îles administrées par le Japon mais revendiquées par la Chine. Ces bateaux sont entrés dans la zone de 12 milles nautiques (22 km) entourant les îles Senkaku, appelées Diaoyu par les Chinois.
Cette nouvelle incursion intervient au lendemain d'un discours du ministre de la défense nippon, qui a souligné que le Japon pourrait être un acteur majeur d'un éventuel conflit armé en Asie et a mis en garde contre la tentation de la Chine de mener une politique d'expansion territoriale.
Toujours lundi, d'après le ministère de la défense à Tokyo, un avion gouvernemental chinois s'est approché à une centaine de kilomètres de l'espace aérien des îles Senkaku.
Des navires officiels chinois croisent souvent dans les eaux territoriales des Senkaku depuis la nationalisation par le Japon, en septembre dernier, d'une partie de cet archipel inhabité.
Outre leur position stratégique en mer de Chine orientale, ces îles sont entourées de fonds marins qui pourraient renfermer des hydrocarbures. Des experts redoutent que cette présence navale régulière dans la zone n'entraîne un incident armé entre les deux puissances asiatiques.
27/8/13
Three-ship fleet patrols waters surrounding Diaoyu Islands...
DeleteA three-ship fleet of the China Coast Guard has patrolled territorial water surrounding the Diaoyu Islands, according to the State Oceanic Administration.
The China Coast Guard was formally unveiled in July, and its functions are to enforce China’s maritime law. The major responsibilities of the China Coast Guard are fisheries administration, maritime surveillance, customs enforcement and border control.
The first time the China Coast Guard patrolled waters surrounding the Diaoyu Islands was 2 days after it was officially unveiled, replacing 4 ships from the China Maritime Surveillance fleet.
http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20130827/103807.shtml
27/8/13
Japan protestiert gegen chinesische Schiffe vor umstrittenen Inseln...
ReplyDeleteJapan hat bei China Protest eingelegt, nachdem chinesische Patrouillenschiffe im Raum der umstrittenen Senkaku-Inseln (chinesisch: Diaoyu) im Ostchinesischen Meer aufgetaucht waren.
Sieben chinesische Schiffe kreuzten am Dienstagmorgen in dem umstrittenen Seegebiet auf. Am Montag hatten die japanischen Behörden unweit der Insel zwei chinesische Fregatten der Jiangkai-Klasse geortet.
Die Inseln, die nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg unter Kontrolle der USA waren, sind umstritten, seit sie 1972 zusammen mit der Insel Okinawa an Japan übergeben wurden. China besteht darauf, dass die Inseln bereits vor 600 Jahren im Bestand des chinesischen Reiches und 1783 und 1785 sogar auf japanischen Karten als chinesisches Territorium eingezeichnet gewesen seien. Tokio behauptet, dass die Inseln seit 1895 Japan gehören und zuvor keinen Besitzer hatten.
Der Streit spitzte sich im September 2012 zu, als die japanische Regierung drei der insgesamt fünf Senkaku-Inseln von einem privaten Besitzer kaufte. China sah dadurch seine Souveränität verletzt. Die unbewohnte Inselgruppe wird auch von Taiwan beansprucht.
http://de.rian.ru/politics/20130910/266847664.html
10/9/13
Japan considers option to permanently deploy state employees on Senkaku Islands....
DeleteTOKIO, September 10. (Itar-Tass). – Japan’s government considers an option of permanent deployment of state employees on Senkaku Islands, as stated by the Secretary General of Japan’s Cabinet Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday.
“This is one of the options,” Suga noted. At the same time, the country’s Secretary General underlined that “Japan will decisively protect its territory and national waters.” The situation around Senkaku Islands that China calls Diaoyu Islands and considers its own territory continues to deteriorate while Japan is preparing to celebrate the anniversary of their nationalization.
Earlier on Tuesday Japan expressed concern and urged China to refrain from air drone flights near Senkaku Islands.
On Monday, September 9, Japan’s Self-Defense Force fighter planes were put on alert due to a possible interception by unmanned aircraft. The Japanese Defense Ministry stated that the drone did not violate the airspace of the country, but this type of aircraft was registered in the area for the first time.
Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera stressed today that “Self-Defense Force of Japan enforced control over these territories” due to the forthcoming anniversary on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, eight ships of Chinese naval police entered simultaneously the area near Senkaku, which is considered by Japan as its national waters. Japan’s Foreign Ministry already expressed its protest to China in this regard. This was the most massive entry of Chinese ships in this area since April 2013.
Senkaku Islands were annexed by Japan late in 19th century. Tokio claims that they didn’t belong to anybody and were uninhabited. However, Beijing believes that Diaoyu were unlawfully occupied together with Taiwan Isle as a result of Japan’s aggression. In September 2012, Tokio purchased these islands from their previous private owners, Japanese citizens. This triggered massive uproar in China and led to anti-Japanese demonstrations.
http://www.itar-tass.com/c32/871662.html
10/9/13
Japan on high alert for disputed islands anniversary....
DeleteJapan's coastguard said it was "on high alert" Wednesday, a year to the day since Tokyo nationalized islands that China says it has owned for centuries.
Often-testy ties have soured dramatically over the last 12 months, with frequent confrontations between official ships from Asia's two largest powers.
On Tuesday, Tokyo said it had not ruled out stationing officials there, provoking an ominous warning from Beijing that Japan "must be prepared to bear the consequences of this provocation".
"We are on high alert as today marks the first anniversary of the nationalization of the Senkaku islands," coastguard official Yuma Miyako told AFP, referring to the Tokyo-controlled islands claimed by China as the Diaoyus.
Since last September, official Chinese vessels have regularly traversed the waters -- China said Tuesday it had carried out 59 such "patrols" -- each time being warned off by Japanese ships, and the two nations' militaries have shadow-boxed in international waters and international skies.
Tokyo says it nationalized the islands as a way to take the sting out of a potentially explosive attempt to buy them by nationalists, who talked of developing them for tourism.
It was somewhat wrong-footed by the vehemence of Beijing's response, which saw violent protests erupt across China and diplomatic ties frozen, badly affecting a huge trade relationship on which both countries depend.
A change of government in Tokyo that made hawkish nationalist Shinzo Abe prime minister did little to soothe matters.
Xinhua Tuesday accused him of turning a blind eye to the nation's "beautifying of atrocious wartime crime", the latest in a long line of tongue-lashings Chinese state media has delivered.
Eight Chinese ships spent several hours in the islands' territorial waters on Tuesday and four remained in the contiguous zone on Wednesday, Japanese officials said......http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/japan-on-high-alert-for-disputed-islands-anniversary.aspx?pageID=238&nID=54240&NewsCatID=356
11/9/13
US hopes China, Japan push diplomacy on isles spat...
ReplyDeleteBEIJING – The United States hopes that tentative diplomatic engagement between China and Japan amid their dispute over a group of islands in the East China Sea is successful as escalation is in nobody’s interest, a senior US diplomat said today (Sept 14).
Ties between the world’s second- and third-biggest economies have been strained over the uninhabited islets, controlled by Japan but claimed by both countries. The isles are known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.
Aircraft and ships from the two countries have played cat-and-mouse in the vicinity of the islands, raising fears of conflict, perhaps sparked by an accident.
Speaking after a tour of the region, US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel said the world did not want the spat to get out of hand.
Global interest in economic stability, Mr Russel told a news conference in Beijing, was “too strong for the world’s second and third-largest economies to remain at odds.
“We hope that leaders on all sides will exercise restraint and sensitivity and will consistently pursue diplomatic and friendly moves to manage disputes or resolve outstanding issues,” he said.
“It is of great concern to the US, as it is to all countries that rely on maritime corridors, that there is any risk of an incident that could lead to a crisis or lead to an escalation,” he said.
“We hope that quiet diplomatic engagement between Japan and China bears fruit, and we note with interest that Prime Minister Abe and President Xi Jinping had some form of encounter or conversation in St Petersburg,” Mr Russel added, referring to the brief meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit earlier this month.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is keen to improve ties and has called for dialogue with China, though he has rejected any conditions on talks.
China has shown no inclination to respond to the overtures, aside from the short exchange between the leaders in Russia, and says it has indisputable sovereignty over the islands.
China’s military told the US this week not to support Japan, nor let it do as it pleased, over the islets.
China has long harboured suspicions about US interest in the dispute as the US-Japan security treaty commits the US to intervene in defence of Japan if there is an attack on Japanese-administered territory.
The US also has a hefty military presence in Japan, including on the southern island of Okinawa, which is close to the disputed isles.
REUTERS
http://www.todayonline.com/world/americas/us-hopes-china-japan-push-diplomacy-isles-spat
14/9/13