Japan mulls island troops, China exports resume
TOKYO: Japan is considering stationing troops near islands at the centre of a row with China, a news report said Wednesday, but Beijing’s move to ease mineral exports raised hopes for an easing of...
View ArticleChina cyberattacks hit Japan in island row: police
At least 19 Japanese websites, including those of a government ministry, courts and a hospital, have come under cyberattack, apparently from China, police said Wednesday. Many of the websites were...
View ArticleChina flexes muscles with drills amid island dispute
China dispatched naval vessels, aircraft and helicopters to the East China Sea on Friday, flexing its muscles in exercises likely to further stoke a bristling territorial dispute with Japan. A fleet of...
View ArticleJapan-US military drills begin amid Asian island row
Japan has launched naval drills with the US in spite of heightened tensions with China over a territorial dispute. The exercise was initially planned to simulate an island re-occupation, but was...
View ArticleJapan boosts defence of disputed islands
Japan will deploy two more patrol ships to boost its defence of islands at the centre of a territorial row with China and has conducted its first drill simulating the recapture of an isle seized by...
View ArticleUS position on Japan island dispute a ‘betrayal’: China
Veiled US warnings to Beijing not to challenge Japan’s control of disputed islands encouraged Tokyo’s “dangerously right-leaning” government and “betrayed” Washington’s vow of neutrality, Chinese state...
View ArticleTaiwan adds new ships to patrol disputed islands
Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday unveiled two new ships that will join the patrol in waters off disputed islands in the East China Sea at the centre of a regional territorial row. “We will...
View ArticleChina military planes flew close to disputed isles: report
Chinese military planes, mostly fighter jets, made more than 40 flights close to Tokyo-controlled islands at the center of a territorial dispute on a single day this week, a press report said Saturday....
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