"Japan means to make provocations and create a tense atmosphere. The training and flying missions by the Chinese military aircrafts including drones, over the South China Sea are in line with international laws and practice," Chinese defense ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said.
"China’s military aircraft will not violate the territorial airspace of other countries; nor will we allow aircraft of other countries to violate China’s airspace. We’d like to remind relevant sides of not underestimating the unwavering will and resolve of the Chinese military to safeguard national sovereignty.
"We consider such forceful measures as Japan’s claim of 'shooting them down' a severe provocation and an act of war. We will respond with resolute counter-attacks and the provocator will bear all consequences."
The spokesman also briefed the press about a joint operation with Japan to rescue a stricken Japanese fishing boat in restricted Chinese waters.
The incident occured on Wednesday roughly 650 kilometers south of Okinawa when the fishing boat sent out a distress signal. Japan requested the Chinese side to allow its vessels to provide help.
China agreed to the request and Japan’s Maritime Safety Agency was allowed to dispatch vessels into Chinese waters. The Chinese Navy also responded to the request for help and rendered assistance to the rescue operation out of humanitarian considerations.
http://english.cntv.cn/program/asiatoday/20131026/104163.shtml
26/10/13
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- Japan ready to be more assertive against China: PM Abe
But a top retired Chinese diplomat said any move by Tokyo to contain China could amount to an attempt to conceal ulterior motives in the region and prove to be “extremely dangerous”.
Mr Abe, interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, said he had realised during recent meetings with South East Asian leaders that the region was looking for leadership from Tokyo in terms of security amid China’s more forthright diplomacy.
“There are concerns that China is attempting to change the status quo by force, rather than by rule of law. But if China opts to take that path, then it won’t be able to emerge peacefully,” he told the newspaper.
“So it shouldn’t take that path and many nations expect Japan to strongly express that view. And they hope that as a result, China will take responsible action in the international community.”
Relations between Japan and China have deteriorated sharply in the past year, with the main sticking point being conflicting claims to uninhabited islets in the East China Sea, known in Japanese as the Senkaku islands and in China as Diaoyu.
Ties have taken a further battering over visits by Japanese lawmakers this month to the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo honouring both war dead and Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals.
China is also at odds with several South East Asian countries, which contest its claims to wide swathes of the South China Sea.
Former Chinese foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan, addressing a forum in Beijing, said that Japan hoped to enlist the United Nations and the international community to curb China’s actions in the region, according to media reports.
Mr Tang made no reference to Mr Abe’s latest comments but said any attempt to contain China either amounted to a distorted view of China or “the rendering of an image of the ‘Chinese menace’ to achieve an ulterior political goal”.
“I hope it’s the former, because if it’s the latter, not only is it futile, it is also extremely dangerous.”
President Xi Jinping adopted a more conciliatory tone at a conference on diplomacy this week, saying good relations with neighbours were crucial to a stable foreign policy.
Mr Abe took office last year for a rare second term and is seen as a hawkish nationalist with a conservative agenda that includes revising a post-war pacifist constitution drafted by the United States, strengthening Japan’s defence posture and recasting wartime history with a less apologetic tone.
He is likely to visit the Yasukuni shrine by the end of the year, a move certain to outrage China, which sees the site as glorifying war criminals. REUTERS
http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/japan-ready-be-more-assertive-against-china-pm-abe
26/10/13
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Κινεζικά και ιαπωνικά αεροσκάφη πάνω από διαφιλονικούμενα νησιά...
ReplyDeleteΤα κινεζικά αεροσκάφη πέταξαν από την Ανατολική Σινική Θάλασσα έως τον Ειρηνικό Ωκεανό, αλλά δεν εισήλθαν στον ιαπωνικό εναέριο χώρο.
Η Ιαπωνία ανέπτυξε δύο μαχητικά αεροσκάφη επί 48 ώρες σε απάντηση για τις πτήσεις τεσσάρων κινεζικών πολεμικών αεροσκαφών πάνω από τα διεθνή ύδατα γύρω από το αρχιπέλαγος της Οκινάουα, κοντά σε διαφιλονικούμενο νησιωτικό σύμπλεγμα από το Τόκιο και το Πεκίνο, γράφει σήμερα ο ιαπωνικός Τύπος.
Τα αεροσκάφη αυτά αναπτύχθηκαν την Παρασκευή και το Σάββατο, ενώ τα κινεζικά αεροσκάφη πραγματοποιούσαν πτήσεις ανάμεσα στο μεγαλύτερο νησί του αρχιπελάγους Οκινάουα και του νησιού Μιγιάκο, σύμφωνα με τα ειδησεογραφικά πρακτορεία Jiji Press και Kyodo News.
Τα κινεζικά αεροσκάφη πέταξαν από την Ανατολική Σινική Θάλασσα έως τον Ειρηνικό Ωκεανό, αλλά δεν εισήλθαν στον ιαπωνικό εναέριο χώρο, σύμφωνα με τα δημοσιεύματα.
Οι σχέσεις ανάμεσα στο Τόκιο και το Πεκίνο είναι τεταμένες από τον Σεπτέμβριο του 2012 εξαιτίας μιας εδαφικής διαφοράς για το μικρό αρχιπέλαγος της Ανατολικής Σινικής Θάλασσας, που τελεί υπό την διοίκηση του Τόκιο με την ονομασία Σενκάκου αλλά διεκδικείται από το Πεκίνο υπό την ονομασία Ντιαογού.
Τα νησιά αυτά βρίσκονται ανάμεσα στην Οκινάουα και την Ταϊβάν.
Σε συνέντευξη στην εφημερίδα Wall Street Journal του Σαββάτου, ο ιάπωνας πρωθυπουργός Σίνζο Αμπε υπογράμμισε ότι η χώρα του είναι έτοιμη για μια στρατιωτική αντιπαράθεση με την Κίνα, αν η τελευταία επιλέξει να χρησιμοποιήσει στρατιωτική βία για να διεκδικήσει τα συμφέροντά της.
«Ορισμένοι φοβούνται ότι η Κίνα προσπαθεί να αλλάξει το καθεστώς δια της βίας αντί να ακολουθήσει το δρόμο του δικαίου. Ωστόσο αν η Κίνα επιλέξει να ακολουθήσει τον δρόμο της στρατιωτικής βίας, τότε δεν θα μπορέσει να εξέλθει από αυτόν με ειρηνικό τρόπο», εξήγησε ο Αμπε στην αμερικανική εφημερίδα
http://www.protothema.gr/world/article/322986/kinezika-kai-iaponika-aeroskafi-pano-apo-diafilonikoumena-nisia/
27/10/13
China Intensifies Press on Japan in East China Sea Dispute...
ReplyDeleteChina is stepping up pressure on Japan in a long-running maritime dispute, deploying Chinese vessels near contested East China Sea islands and accusing Japanese leaders of making provocative statements.
Japan said four Chinese coast guard patrol ships entered the disputed waters on Monday morning, prompting Japanese authorities to warn the vessels to leave the area, which they did a short time later.
Chinese ships have sailed near the islets on dozens of occasions in the past year. Such incidents typically end within several hours, with the Chinese vessels leaving the area after trading warnings and sovereignty claims with the Japanese.
Japan controls the disputed islands and calls them Senkaku, while China also claims sovereignty and refers to them as Daioyu.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Monday recent remarks by Japanese leaders about China are a "provocation." In unusually strong language, she accused Japanese politicians of being "pretentious."
Hua was speaking a day after Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a group of Japanese troops that Tokyo will not tolerate "the use of force to change the region's status quo." His Sunday remarks were a reference to Japanese concerns about China's growing assertiveness in maritime disputes.
Hua said China believes that Japan "broke the status quo" of the East China Sea islands through unilateral actions. The Japanese government bought three of the uninhabited islets from their Japanese owners last year in a symbolic transfer of ownership that infuriated Beijing.
China also has reacted angrily to Japanese media reports that Prime Minister Abe recently approved a plan to shoot down foreign drones that ignore warnings to leave Japanese airspace.
Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng responded to those reports on Saturday, saying any such action by Japan would be a severe provocation to China and an "act of war."
Japan has scrambled fighter jets several times this year in response to Chinese military aircraft flying near Japanese airspace above Okinawa province, which incorporates the disputed islets.
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua said the Chinese warplanes were conducting "normal exercises" in the East China Sea "in accordance with international law." She said "relevant parties need not make a fuss" about the operations.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.
http://www.voanews.com/content/china-intensifies-press-on-japan-in-east-china-sea-dispute/1778408.html
28/10/13