CHINA-JAPAN: CHINA DEPLOYS DRILLING SHIP IN JAPAN-CLAIMED WATERS IN EAST CHINA SEA
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Hongkong's South China Morning Post reported on February 7, that Japan has lodged another protest with China through diplomatic channels over its continued deployment of a drilling ship at a gas field in a contested area of the East China Sea. Tokyo said that the drilling ship had moved in January to a location a few kilometres northeast of where it was in mid-November. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on February 7, “It’s extremely regrettable that China has continued its unilateral development activity". Tokyo claims Beijing has developed 16 structures on the Chinese side of a Tokyo-proposed median line separating the two countries’ economic zones in the East China Sea.
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