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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Japan lodges formal protest over Chinese survey ship entering its territorial waters
By YURI KAGEYAMA TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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mu-da
Any appeasement with China is an invitation for them to do it again. Take a page from Susi Pudjiastuti, the Indonesian minister for maritime affairs: Capture the ship, send the crew back to China and blow up the ship.
englisc aspyrgend
Don’t “observe” the vessel, arrest it, prosecute the captain, require the Chinese embassy to pay for/arrange the crews repatriation and impound the ship and sell it for scrap.
elephant200
Freedom of navigation is practicing !
itsonlyrocknroll
The Government of China is intent, under the cover of conflict in the middle east, eastern Europe, Ukraine, to leverage global political instability, to belligerently seize advantage, control to trading shipping routes in the east and south China seas.
The Global democracies are weak in resolve, soft, hesitant, politically indisposed.
Wise up, grow a spine, stand ground and show the playground bully backbone and a bloody nose
isabelle
Typical China: one of the world's biggest countries and still wants to steal even more territory. Just like Russia, and all other autocracies.
Lies, as usual.
And this is one of the key problems. Decoupling needs to happen as soon as possible. Without the free world propping up China's economy it could not threaten its neighbors. Let's see how mighty China is when it can only sell stuff to Russia, Iran, North Korea, and a few tinpot dictatorships.
Tokyoite
This is how it starts.
Tokyoite
Just look at what China did in August colliding with the Philippine coast guard ship.
That happened just 80 miles off the coast of the Philippines and more than 600 miles from China.
They will not stop until they grab it all.
stormcrow
China being China . . . again.
China doesn’t respect anybody.
ebisen
As long as your pants and your stupid iPhones say "made in China", together with three quarters of the things you own, you support this country and the war it wants to start. I know many will downvote me, but it's possible to live a life without owning anything made there.
ian
Do you know of anyone who does that?
Desert Tortoise
I read the label on the things I buy. There are non-Chinese made alternatives to very nearly everything you might want to buy. Nearly all my footwear is made in the US. All my major appliances are made in the US. My ceiling fans are US made (Big-Ass Fans is the name of the company that made them). Our microwave oven is US made by Amana. The computer I am typing on was assembled in Virginia and every component that touches data is from the US, Taiwan or South Korea. Only the plastic case and screen come from China. The manufacturer lets you spec the internals. Later this evening I will buy a US made TANS unit for my aching back. Do your research and you find no shortage of non Chinese made products to buy.
ian
I know you're doing it, what I was asking was if the one lecturing above knows one who does.
It's an indirect question if he's doing it himself
Coulda been
In Japanese territorial waters for two hours and nothing was done?
Oh, sorry, a protest note was despatched.
Bellflower
This is actually no big deal and happens frequently because it is a survey ship. It happens regularly about every month.
This is an AP American news article and it is really quite hysterical in tone.
You should compare today's NHK article which states this:
"International law grants military vessels of each country the right of innocent passage, just like ordinary ships, so long as they do not harm the order or security of coastal countries."
You should think about who really cares about peace in Asia, about the security of your family, and who is trying to stir up trouble.
WiseOneIn Kansai
That's easy, it's definitely not China!! Every country in the South China Seas knows this!
Again, it's not China, they are willing to hold hostage, family members of the Chinese critics of the CCP overseas to pressure them to come back.
That's easy, it's certainly China hands down.
Ask India, Indonesia, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan.
リッチ
And no one cares. Sadly Japan and protest all they want and waste their time with headlines and chest pounding but most people don’t care in the world.. Pretty sure China is going to do what they want.
ian
China is doing very well in global trade and all countries are its trade partners and customers
Of course they want peaceful relations with them. They wouldn't want to shoot up their customers.
The US stirs up trouble to try to drive a wedge between China and trade partners to slow and hopefully reverse its trade growth
englisc aspyrgend
Yes me.
N. Knight
Lodge a formal complaint... Next step is to write a stern letter.
Martimurano
Last time they arrived with sticks, knives and axes - this time they rammed the Phillipines' ship causing a gash to its' hull. Next time they won't leave til they've sunk the Philippines' ship, drowning all on board.
And yet, we hear not a peep from the great U.N., no protests, no recalling the Chinese Ambassador to NY to appear and explain their actions.
There's only one answer, as several have pointed out - stop the buying of anything at all from China, cut off their financial dependency revenue-stream, and let's see if they can then behave reasonably like a civilised country which they used to be.
Peter Neil
territorial waters is not the same economic zone.
if another country violated chinese territorial waters, they’d probably seize it.
hey, there’s an idea…