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**Elizabeth** · (This post was last modified: 09-25-2012 02:44 AM by Elizabeth.)

http://spam/3-chinese-vessels-enter-japans-territorial-waters/

Three Chinese government patrol ships have entered Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.

Japan’s Coast Guard says the 3 were among 6 Chinese vessels which entered the contiguous zone outside Japan’s territorial waters off the disputed islands between 5 AM and 6:30 AM on Monday morning.

Coast Guard officials have confirmed that the marine surveillance ships, “Haijian 46″ and “Haijian 66″, each entered Japan’s territorial waters from west northwest and northwest of Kubashima Island between 6:30 and 7 AM.

The third Chinese ship arrived in territorial waters off Taishoto Island around 10:40 AM.

The islands belong to the Senkaku island group.

A Coast Guard patrol boat has been issuing radio warnings in Chinese for the ships to leave Japanese waters, but there has been no response. The 3 vessels are still navigating in Japanese waters.

The Chinese government vessels have been in the waters off the disputed islands since last Tuesday.
This is the second time in the past week that the ships have intruded into Japanese waters.

Sep. 24, 2012 – Updated 01:23 UTC (10:23 JST)

**Elizabeth**

Some more sources

Anon

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Japan+...story.html

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09...-ties-sour

**Michael Alan Keith**

If the Islands are disputed then so is the extent of Japans supposed territorial waters.

**Blitzkreig**

**Elizabeth**

Buster Wrote:

If the Islands are disputed then so is the extent of Japans supposed territorial waters.

Disputed or not... This could end up ugly

Jhikpghf

**Black H@t** · (This post was last modified: 09-25-2012 03:14 AM by Black H@t.)

“Haijian 46″ and “Haijian 66″... 666 I don't like the sound of that

In Taiwan, which calls the islets Tiaoyutai, media reports said about 60 fishing boats will leave Monday for waters near Uotsuri, the largest of the islets, to protest. The boats will be carrying Taiwanese fishermen and gather off Uotsuri's southwest but do not plan to land on any of the islets, although Taiwan also claims them, the reports said.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120924b1.html

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 114809 09-25-2012 03:09 AM

I want Company of Heroes China-Japan conflict.

Maybe they will make it after ww3.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 122865 09-25-2012 03:32 AM

My money is on Pan.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 120763 09-25-2012 03:52 AM

would this cause the US to put their Okinawa Marines out? do you think they will be preparing in any way?

**Elizabeth**

[quote='LoP Guest' pid='4232470' dateline='1348537953']
would this cause the US to put their Okinawa Marines out? do you think they will be preparing in any way?

My Niece is stationed there.... I will see if I can find something out from her.
Jhikpghf

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 120763 09-25-2012 04:04 AM

Elizabeth Wrote:

[quote='LoP Guest' pid='4232470' dateline='1348537953']
would this cause the US to put their Okinawa Marines out? do you think they will be preparing in any way?

My Niece is stationed there.... I will see if I can find something out from her.

thank you so much! I've been texting a VERY good friend who is over there, and he's not responded in a few hours, which is VERY unlike him..he said he'd be free to text all day. and I'm kinda worried. thank you! Heartflowers

**Blitzkreig**

Dozens of Taiwanese vessels enter waters around disputed islands in East China Sea - @BBCBreaking

**ana** · **ana** . User ID: 110717 09-25-2012 04:04 AM **Posts: 4,852**

Buster Wrote:

If the Islands are disputed then so is the extent of Japans supposed territorial waters.

i read it was the waters around the islands that both sides are interested in. had something to do with making money.

**Blitzkreig**

Blitzkreig Wrote:

Dozens of Taiwanese vessels enter waters around disputed islands in East China Sea - @BBCBreaking

Taiwan boats in disputed isle waters: Japan coastguard

Dozens of Taiwanese boats including six coastguard vessels entered territorial waters around bitterly disputed East China Sea islands on Tuesday, Japanese coastguards said.

"Tens of fishing boats entered the waters. They were accompanied by six Taiwanese coastguard ships," a coastguards spokesman said.

The boats are part of a fleet that left Taiwan on Monday vowing to stake their claim to islands where they say they have ancestral fishing rights.

Their arrival and large-scale breach of what Japan considers its territorial waters will further complicate an already high-stakes confrontation pitting Tokyo against Beijing.

Japan administers the uninhabited, but strategically well-positioned, archipelago under the name Senkaku. Beijing says it has owned the islands for centuries and calls them Diaoyu.

Taiwan, whose coast lies around 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the islands, claims the Diaoyutai belong to it.

Ownership of the islands has become an important tenet of identity for all three claimants; the possible presence of energy reserves in the nearby seabed adds to the mix.

http://www.france24.com/en/20120925-taiw...medium=twi