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September 15, 2013

Four Chinese ships enter disputed waters: Japan
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 14, 2013
Four Chinese ships entered waters around islands at the centre of a bitter dispute with Japan on Saturday with no sign of a compromise seen between Asia's two largest powers. The four Chinese coastguard vessels sailed into the 12-nautical-mile territorial waters around the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku islands - which Beijing calls the Diaoyus - Saturday morning, the Japanese coastguard said. They had all left the waters more than four hours later and were in contiguous waters just outside of the 1 ... read more

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