DISPUTED ISLANDS +++++++++++++++++ Chinas state media slammed Japans move to name islands at the edge of its territorial waters claimed by Beijing as a farce. Tokyo named 160 uninhabited islands in the East China Sea which include five in an archipelago known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. China said Japans naming farce cant change Chinas sovereignty over Diaoyu Islands. Chinas foreign ministry, reacting after Tokyos move, described the action as illegal and invalid and said it did not change anything to the fact that the islands belonged to China. Tokyo and Beijings bitter and longstanding battle over ownership of the East China Sea chain was exacerbated when Japan nationalised some of the archipelago nearly two years ago. Since then, the waters have seen increasingly dangerous standoffs in the sea and air around the contested territory.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 05:59:20 +0000
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