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China Deploys Navy Ships to Patrol Islands Disputed with Japan
BEIJING: A day after asking Japan to stop encroaching its territory, Chinese military today for the first time deployed its naval ships to patrol the islands disputed with Tokyo in the East China Sea.
This is the first time in recent months China deployed its naval vessels for patrols in the islands waters replacing the marine surveillance vessels, even though some naval ships were seen in the waters earlier.
A two-vessel fleet of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy patrolled the territorial waters surrounding the Diaoyu Islands this morning, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
China calls the islands Diaoyu while Japan refers to them Senkakus, which were administered by Tokyo till last September after which China started challenging the Japanese hold on the islets.
Significantly they also conducted open-sea offencive and defencive training as well as exercises of intercepting and searching illegal vessels in the western Pacific Ocean on Sunday and Monday, it said.
Missile destroyer Lanzhou and missile frigate Hengshui, both from the Navy’s Nanhai Fleet, entered the sea area via the Miyako Strait on Tuesday night, the report said.
Today’s patrol by the Nanhai fleet ships came after vessels from the PLA Navy’s Beihai Fleet and Donghai Fleet had previously patrolled the Diaoyu Islands waters.
Yesterday Chinese Defence Ministry spokesperson Yang Yujun asked Japan to stop encroaching the country’s territory asserting it has the capability and determination to safeguard them.
“What is important now is for Japan to stop activities that undermine China’s territorial sovereignty and take actions to ensure the issue resolved,” he said while release a white paper on the Chinese military.
The paper named Japan as “trouble maker” while accusing US of making situation “tenser” by forging alliances in Asia.
7 Comments on "China Deploys Navy Ships to Patrol Islands Disputed with Japan"
BillT on Thu, 18th Apr 2013 11:16 am
This appears to be a skirmish between the Empire of China and the American Empire and has little to do with Japan.
I fully expect China to dominate the Pacific from China to 1,000 miles off of China’s coast and from Russia to India eventually.
Arthur on Thu, 18th Apr 2013 11:18 am
At some point the US will be forced to withdraw from Asia when the day of reckoning arrives (‘imperial overstretch’), just like Europe withdrew from Africa/Asia in the fourties-seventees. What is happening now are some insignificant skirmishes/noisemaking, after which Japan will get the message and ‘comply’ and will de facto become a Chinese satellite after the demise of Pax Americana.
BillT on Thu, 18th Apr 2013 2:21 pm
Arthur, at least we agree on this one point…lol. I think the Philippines will also be connected to China eventually. I’m thinking about learning Chinese…lol.
GregT on Thu, 18th Apr 2013 4:34 pm
White people in Vancouver, that have already learned to speak “Chinese” (Mandarine more specifically ) are making a fortune. Whites are now a visible minority in most of the suburbs, and it has been announced recently that by 2025, over 50% of the population will be non Caucasian.
Vancouver is very “connected” to China already.
Arthur on Thu, 18th Apr 2013 5:43 pm
Bill: “I fully expect China to dominate the Pacific from China to 1,000 miles off of China’s coast”
Greg: “Vancouver is very “connected” to China already.”
It remains to be seen where the final ‘frontline’ between European and Han-Chinese civilisation is going to be. Could be the Rockies rather than Hawaii. At least I am confident that the Atlantic will remain European.
Arthur on Thu, 18th Apr 2013 6:03 pm
“I’m thinking about learning Chinese… lol.”
I am currently learning Russian, like you, anticipating grand geopolitical changes.
MrEnergyCzar on Fri, 19th Apr 2013 1:35 am
China needs that oil and we’ll have to let them take it, they can just dump our treasuries if we intervene…
MrEnergyCzar