China detains 2 for ripping flag from Japanese ambassador's car amid island ...
Anti-Japanese street protests broke out this summer after Japan detained and later released 14 Hong Kong activists who landed on the islands, called Diaoyu in Chinese and Senkaku in Japanese. The islands are controlled by Japan but also claimed by ...www.washingtonpost.com
Taiwan Lawmakers Land on Disputed South China Sea Island
TAIPEI, Taiwan - A group of Taiwanese legislators landed on an islet in the hotly disputed South China Sea to inspect the level of coast guard protection for its claims in the Spratly archipelago.www.voanews.com
Nationalism Fuels Japan-China Island Dispute
An escalating dispute between Japan and China over an island chain in the East China Sea is focusing attention on increasingly nationalistic moves by the rival Asian powers.www.voanews.com
Japan-China island clash: Peace in a common history
But it is the raw feelings over Japan's early-20th-century aggression in Asia that creates the most worry that the string of clashes over the Senkaku Islands (known as Diaoyu Islands in China) might result in serious military confrontation. To ...www.csmonitor.com
Clinton Heads To China Amid Island Tensions
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Beijing for what could be one of the last big foreign policy trips of the Obama presidency.news.sky.com
Island Hopping
Island Hopping. Even before General Liang Guanglie completed the first ever visit by a Chinese defence minister to Sri Lanka last week, the president of Maldives, Mohamed Waheed, was catching a flight to China. Together, these two events help underline ...www.indianexpress.com
Japan deporting Chinese held over island landing
Japan is deporting the 14 Chinese nationals arrested over a disputed island chain in the East China Sea, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Friday, in a resolution aimed at ending a diplomatic incident between the two nations.www.cnn.com
Island paradise opens arms to Chinese visitors
Chinese food? Shopping? Gaming? It will no longer be difficult for travelers to find these popular Chinese pastimes when enjoying a holiday in the Maldives, the collection of idyllic islands in the Indian Ocean. The island nation's resorts have ...www.chinadaily.com.cn
Clinton seeks to boost U.S. Pacific ties as China expands
RAROTONGA (Reuters) - The United States will buttress security partnerships across the Pacific as it strengthens ties with island nations, but also hopes to work more closely with China as Beijing expands its own influence in the region, U.S. Secretary ...articles.chicagotribune.com
Vietnam protests China's offer of exploration block near Paracel Islands
Block 65/12 lies 3 miles off Cay Island in the Paracel Islands, which are claimed by Vietnam but are currently under China's control, according to a statement issued by Vietnam's Foreign ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi late Friday. China calls the ...www.platts.com
Island dispute: Japanese envoy attacked in Beijing
A car carrying the Japanese ambassador to China was attacked by an unidentified man on Monday amid escalating tension between the two countries over disputed islands in the East China sea. The Japanese news agency Kyodo said ambassador Uichiro ...www.hindustantimes.com
The Global Note: Afghanistan "Insider Attacks"…Jihadists in Syria…Japan ...
Now activists on both sides have put the islands front-and-center in one of the biggest crises between the two Asian giants in years, a collision of the persistent animosities over Japan's imperialist past and the new fears of China's rising economic ...abcnews.go.com
Pacific micro-nations cash in on US-China aid rivalry
CANBERRA, Australia -- Small South Pacific island nations are cashing in on new aid rivalry between China and the United States as both powers vie to boost their influence in a vast region of mostly micro-nations.worldnews.nbcnews.com
Vietnam slams China's island oil bid call
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Luong Thanh Nghi on August 31 protested against China's plan to invite international bids for oil block 65/12, about 3 nautical miles off Cay (Tree) Island of the country's Hoang Sa (Paracel) Archipelago." Vietnam protests ...english.vovnews.vn
China's space will be squeezed if Japan takes Tiaoyutais: expert
4 (CNA) If the disputed Tiaoyutai Islands in the East China Sea are acquired by Japan, China's strategic space in the East China Sea will be squeezed, a Chinese strategic expert said Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Luo Yuan, executive vice president of the China ...focustaiwan.tw
Tokyo city officials survey islands at center of dispute with China ahead of ...
ABOARD THE KOYO MARU - Tokyo city officials planning to buy tiny islands at the center of a longtime territorial dispute with China surveyed the area Sunday on a visit meant to send a message of ownership. The boat, carrying 25 experts and officials ...www.washingtonpost.com
Japan deports pro-China island activists
Japan deports pro-China island activists. By Antoine Bouthier (AFP) - Aug 15, 2012. ISHIGAKI, Japan - Japan on Friday deported pro-Beijing activists who had sailed to a disputed island, as Tokyo moved swiftly to put an end to a potentially damaging ...www.google.com
Chinese fishermen missing after boat capsizes in Typhoon Bolaven
Rescuers searched typhoon-swept waters off South Korea's Jeju Island Tuesday for 28 Chinese fishermen missing in the wake of Typhoon Bolaven, a ferocious storm that headed for the Korean Peninsula after making landfall on Okinawa.www.cnn.com
Flags, tensions raised in Japan-China island row
Flags, tensions raised in Japan-China island row. By Antoine Bouthier (AFP) - Aug 18, 2012. SENKAKU ISLANDS, Japan - Nationalists raised Japanese flags on an island at the heart of a corrosive territorial row on Sunday, sparking street protests in ...www.google.com
Japan to deport pro-China island activists: reports
Japan to deport pro-China island activists: reports. By Harumi Ozawa (AFP) - Aug 15, 2012. TOKYO - Japan was readying to deport 14 people it arrested after pro-China activists landed on a disputed island, reports said Thursday, in what was being seen ...www.google.com
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