Senkaku or Diaoyu? Japan and China square off in the East China Sea
Chinese coast guard ships now patrol near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands almost daily, and Japan is sharply boosting its coast guard budget. Tokyo calls it a violation of its territory; Beijing calls it lawful patrols of Chinese waters.
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Tokyo says China's record, near-daily incursions around the Japan-administered Senkakus violate its sovereignty, and is expanding its coast guard to counter an increasingly 'armed' Chinese fleet.
Beijing insists the islands — which it calls Diaoyu Dao — are Chinese territory, and frames its coast guard patrols as routine, lawful rights-protection in its own waters.
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