Chinese ships create post-Davos stir
Source: AFP-JIJI, Kyodo
Chinese Coast Guard ships entered Japan’s 12-nautical-mile zone near one of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Monday, days after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe caused an international stir by comparing Sino-Japanese relations with British-German ties in the runup to World War I.
The Japan Coast Guard said the Chinese vessels encroached at around 9 a.m. and left the area about two hours later.
It came as Abe was in New Delhi, where he and Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh affirmed plans to strengthen defense cooperation, including joint maritime exercises on a “regular basis with increased frequency.”
His three-day visit to India is being keenly watched by China, analysts say. Beijing is sometimes uneasy about what it sees as an attempt by the U.S.-backed Japan to encircle it.
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