Tensions Between China And Japan Over Contested Islands Conitnues To Escalate

China-Japan Clash Threat Rises Over Islands -- SKY News

Tokyo is creating a special maritime unit to keep watch over a group of islands both it and Beijing claim as their own.


The potential for a military clash between Japan and China has been magnified by Japan's announcement that it will create a special maritime unit to keep watch over a string of islands both it and China claim as their own.

The Japanese coastguard will build a unit including 10 new large patrol boats, 600 personnel, and include "an additional pair of existing helicopter-carrier vessels".

The coastguard does not come under the Japanese "Self Defence Forces" which take care not to bump up against the Chinese in the East China Sea but the move is linked to the military build-up in the area.

The coastguard will patrol around what the Japanese call the Senkaku islands and China calls the Diaoyu.

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