China defends gasfield activity in East China Sea

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China and Japan both claim islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan, which knows them as Senkaku, and regularly send ships to nearby waters to assert their claims. (Photo: AFP/Japan Coast Guard)

BEIJING: China on Wednesday (Aug 2) defended its oil and gas activity in the East China Sea as occurring in areas “indisputably” under its jurisdiction, after Japanese protests stirred a longstanding dispute over the region. Tiếp tục đọc “China defends gasfield activity in East China Sea”

Chinese jet ‘flies upside down’ over US spy plane

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Fighter jets carry out what US describes as ‘unprofessional’ intercept of radiation detection plane over East China Sea.

The Chinese jets intercepted the US aircraft in international airspace, US officials said [File: Gregorio Marrero/AP]

Two Chinese fighter jets have carried out what the US military described as an “unprofessional” intercept of a US aircraft designed to detect radiation while it was flying over the East China Sea.

US officials told CNN that one of the Sukhoi Su-30 jets that approached the WC-135 plane on Wednesday was flying upside down, coming as close as 46 metres. Tiếp tục đọc “Chinese jet ‘flies upside down’ over US spy plane”

More Chinese ships enter Japanese waters around Senkakus

August 8, 2016 2:30 am JST  Nikkei

A Chinese marine surveillance ship sails in the East China Sea near the disputed Senkaku Islands on Sunday. (Courtesy of 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters-Japan Coast Guard.) © Kyodo

TOKYO — Chinese vessels have made several incursions since Sunday into the territorial waters surrounding the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, Japan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said early Monday.

Thirteen Chinese coast guard vessels were in the contiguous zone bordering those waters Sunday — the largest such fleet since Tokyo nationalized the islands in 2012, the Japan Coast Guard said. Tiếp tục đọc “More Chinese ships enter Japanese waters around Senkakus”