| China, Japan getting bellicose over disputed gas-rich islands Aug 16th 2012, 14:59 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...ands-activists They wouldn't give a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut if there wasn't gas there. This could get ugly.....and I wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of China nowadays. And I find myself wondering how the USA will wade in and make it worse....perhaps unjustifiably. Quote:
China has urged Japan to immediately and unconditionally release 14 activists who planted the Chinese flag on a disputed island that has long been a source of tension between the two Asian powers.
Fourteen activists from China, Hong Kong and Macau travelled by boat to the group of islands, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in China, on the emotionally charged anniversary of Japan's surrender at the end of the second world war. Five were arrested on the islands, and nine others detained on their boat, Japan's coastguard said earlier.
In discussions with Japanese officials, Chinese vice-foreign minister, Fu Ying, demanded that Japan ensure the safety of the 14 Chinese nationals and immediately and unconditionally release them, the Chinese foreign ministry said on its website.
Fu also "made solemn representations on Japan's unlawful detention of Chinese nationals on the Diaoyu Islands", the ministry website said.
Japan protested to China's ambassador over the activists' landing and the prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, said Tokyo would deal with the matter strictly in accordance with the law.
China's Xinhua state news agency said Japan had pushed tension "to a new high".
"The tensions are fully due to irresponsible clamouring and attempts by some Japanese politicians and activists to claim the islands, which ... indisputably belong to China," it said.
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