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NHK
17 hours ago
- Politics
- NHK
Japan protests China's new structure construction in E. China Sea over gas field
Japan has lodged a protest with China after detecting work installing a new structure near the median line between the two countries in the East China Sea. The structure appears to be related to gas field development in the area. The Japanese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the activity has been confirmed on the Chinese side of the line, known as the geographical equidistance line. The director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Kanai Masaaki, issued a protest to a senior diplomat from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo. The Japanese side said it is extremely regrettable that China is moving forward with unilateral development in the waters. It called on China to resume talks on the implementation of the "June 2008 Agreement." Tokyo and Beijing agreed in 2008 on joint development of gas fields in the East China Sea. But negotiations have stalled. The Japanese ministry says the structure being set up by China is the 20th of its kind, following the one confirmed in May.
Reuters
20 hours ago
- Politics
- Reuters
Japan protests against new Chinese structure in East China Sea
TOKYO/BEIJING, June 24 (Reuters) - China has initiated the installation of a new structure on the west side of the geographical equidistance between Japan and China in the East China Sea, the Japanese foreign ministry said on Tuesday, adding it has lodged a protest with China. The ministry said in a statement "It is extremely regrettable" that China is pressing ahead with unilateral development when the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf in the East China Sea have not yet been delimited. Japan requests that China cease its unilateral development and to resume talks on the implementation of a 2008 agreement, in which the two countries agreed to cooperate on natural resources development in the East China Sea, it also said. There was no immediate response from the Chinese foreign ministry to Reuters' inquiries on the matter. Japan's ties with China have been plagued by a territorial dispute over a group of Japanese-administered islands in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, as well as the legacy of Japan's past military aggression.
