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China Establishes Permanent Senkaku Patrols
The Asahi Shimbun reports that China will set up a permanent presence of “fisheries patrol boats” in the area around the Senkaku islands:
The official with the Ministry of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries took the unusual step of granting an interview concerning the Senkaku issue to a foreign media outlet on Saturday, saying that China was planning measures to challenge Japan’s control of the islands off Okinawa Prefecture.
The official said fisheries patrol vessels of more than 1,000 tons would maintain continuous patrols near the islands, which are known as the Diaoyu Islands in China.
“It is a legitimate right to safeguard China’s maritime interests, and the country is unlikely to relax the arrangement in the future,” the official, who granted the interview on condition of anonymity, said.
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China is trying to assert its control in waters within what it calls the “First Island Chain,” a series of islands stretching from the main island of Kyushu to Vietnam, and has its eye on underground mineral resources, fisheries and other maritime interests within this “inland sea.”
It is building up its navy in line with its increasingly assertive maritime stance, with aircraft carriers and a base for nuclear-powered submarines already under construction.
Related news: Chinese fishermen violate South Korean waters and clash with a Korean patrol boat:
See video at source below
A Chinese fisherman has died after a fishing trawler collided with a South Korean coast guard vessel in the Yellow Sea.
The fishermen and coast guard personnel were filmed fighting after a routine check suddenly turned nasty.
Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan reports.
Source: http://www.japanprobe.com/2010/12/21/china-establishes-permanent-senkaku-patrols/#respond
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