BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters besieged the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Saturday, hurling rocks and bottles at the building as police struggled to keep control, amid growing tensions between Asia's two biggest economies over a group of disputed islands. full story ![]()
The row over islands disputed by South Korea and Japan intensifies on Friday as Japan marks "Takeshima Day.
palmbeachpost.com (2 months and 25 days ago)
In a break from months of sabre rattling, China under its new President appears to be moderating its approach to a potentially explosive territorial dispute with Japan.
cnbc.com (2 months and 2 days ago)
BEIJING — China says buoys placed near disputed islands in the East China Sea are for monitoring ocean conditions.Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters at a briefing Tuesday that the presence of the buoys should not be "disputed or played up."Japan had earlier asked China to explain the purpose of the buoys, which were placed just outside Japanese waters...
bostonherald.com (2 months and 21 days ago)

BEIJING -- China has issued another scathing attack on Japan over an islands dispute, just days ahead of the opening of the Chinese national legislature's annual session. The spokesman for the legislature's chief advisory body, Lu Xinhua, told reporters at a Saturday news conference that if any unintended clash occurred as a result of their patrol boats and planes operating...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 17 days ago)

Shinzo Abe, Japan's hawkish prime minister embroiled in a row with China over tiny islands, has invoked Baroness Thatcher's reflections on the Falklands war to stress the importance of the rule of law at sea.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 20 days ago)

The Chinese foreign ministry has said that it has lodged 'stern representations' with Japan after 10 boats carrying 80 activists was seen close to the islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea.
dailymail.co.uk (24 days ago)
HONG KONG (Reuters) - In a break from months of saber rattling, China under new President Xi Jinping appears to be moderating its approach to a potentially explosive territorial dispute with Japan and taking measures to prevent accidental conflict.
reuters.com (2 months and 3 days ago)
HONG KONG (Reuters) - In a break from months of saber rattling, China under new President Xi Jinping appears to be moderating its approach to a potentially explosive territorial dispute with Japan and taking measures to prevent accidental conflict.
reuters.com (2 months and 3 days ago)
China and Japan, the world's second and third largest economies, do not get along. Increasingly noisy nationalist movements in both countries seem to consider the other country their ancient enemy, with citizens leading sometimes violent anti-Japanese or anti-Chinese protests and national leaders, including the heads of state, promoting confrontation over diplomacy. Read...
washingtonpost.com (4 days ago)

Japan's prime minister threatens to "expel by force" any Chinese landing on islands at the centre of a territorial row.
abc.net.au (25 days ago)
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