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Tokyo's outspoken governor says the city has decided to buy a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea to bolster Japanese claims to the territory, a move that could elevate tensions with China.
Japan says it has protested to China after two Chinese patrol boats entered waters near islands in the East China Sea claimed by both countries.
Japan has grounded its entire F-15 fighter fleet following the crash of one of the jets into the East China Sea, officials said Wednesday.
Japan's new foreign minister pledged Thursday to reset strained relations with China and resolve diplomatic spats stemming from competing claims to islands in the East China Sea.
Japan has complained to China after a Chinese helicopter approached a Japanese warship in the East China Sea.
Japan's military may form a new unit to monitor Chinese naval operations, a move to counter what many Japanese strategists see as an increasingly aggressive stance by Beijing in the East China Sea.
The U.S. declared Saturday it has a national interest in resolving disputes in Asian waters that have ignited regional tensions, as China and Japan attempted to tone down a fiery diplomatic row that has plunged the two countries' relations to a five-year low.
Emergency teams with helicopters rescued 34 workers Wednesday from an oil drilling platform that was leaning dangerously in the East China Sea after a storm, and searched for two others still missing, officials said.
Two Chinese survey ships intruded on Japanese waters surrounding disputed islands in the East China Sea on Monday but retreated several hours after Tokyo protested to Beijing, Japanese officials said.
Nine Taiwanese coast guard vessels entered Japanese waters Monday near disputed islands in the East China Sea to accompany a ship of protesters angry over the sinking nearby of a Taiwanese fishing boat, officials said.
China and Japan amicably wrapped up their first high-level trade and economic talks on Sunday by pledging greater overall cooperation — but left the touchy issue of gas exploration in the East China Sea unresolved.
US think-tank: China/Phillipine spat to get worseUS think-tank warns China spat to worsen by Rodney Jaleco, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau Posted at 05/18/2012 8:37 AM | Updated as of 05/18/2012 11:49 AM WASHINGTON D.C. - China's growing belligerence in disputed waters of the South China Sea will only grow a …
As Iraq and Afghanistan end, Marines trade their boots for flippers.The ACV [Amphibious Combat Vehicle] remains the Marines’ biggest priority, given that today’s fleet of Amphibious Assault Vehicles cannot last much longer. It was supposed to have been replaced by the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle, but that dream is dead. The Marine …
China Concerned About Clinton's Myanmar TripAs Hillary Clinton visited Myanmar on Wednesday, the neighbors were watching closely. The trip to the usually closed-off nation, the first by a U.S.
Chinese nuclear forces, 2011 Today, China is the only one of five original nuclear weapon states that is increasing its nuclear arsenal. According to some estimates, the country could “more than double” the number of warheads on missiles that could threaten the United States by the mid-2020s.
OpEdNews - Article: U.S. Prepares For New Decade of War in AsiaThe United States is engaged in the longest war in its 234-year history in Afghanistan, one that will begin its eleventh calendar year in two weeks. Like the war that had been America's longest before now, that in Indochina, the current one is in the Asian continent.
Clash Of The East Asian Titans "National problems have regional consequences, as regional problems increasingly take on a global dimension. These are the work for a strengthened and more democratic United Nations. The alternatives should keep one up at night,"
China's aggressive posture stuns Japan, expertsWe've just watched the Chinese attempt to manage a dispute ... and they showed they would ratchet up the pressure and bully their way through a problem," said Sheila Smith, senior fellow for Japan studies at the Council for Foreign Relations, in Washington.
China hits back at Japan after boat captain returnsChina on Saturday demanded that Japan apologize for holding a Chinese boat captain, showing little immediate sign of giving ground in a dispute between the two Asian powers after Japan released him.
What China Learned from Vladimir Putin and GeorgiaCall it the Georgia lesson. In 2008, Russia informed the United States and the rest of the West that the former Soviet Caucasus and Central Asia were no longer their playland, but rather Moscow's sovereign sphere of influence. How did it do so? By going to war with Georgia.
Japan report: China's military worrisome; U.S. military reassuringChina's military puts the scare into Japan, and the U.S. is a key to keeping peace in the region, Japan's Defense Ministry said in a white paper Friday.
Japan, China Tensions Rising Over Boat CollisionDiplomatic tensions between China and Japan escalated Wednesday when Beijing called in Japan's ambassador after a Chinese fishing boat collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near a chain of disputed islands and Tokyo arrested the boat's captain.
A List of the Most Valuable Land the Country's are Fighting OverRussia astounded the world recently when it sent a submarine to claim the North Pole. But the race to lock up the Arctic's riches is just one of many hot disputes over valuable or strategic territory around the globe.
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