On Thursday morning, the China Coast Guard said that it had expelled a Japanese fishing vessel that had illegally entered the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands earlier this week.

included Diaoyu Dao on the “Map of Coastal Mountains and Islands” (Yan Hai Shan Sha Tu) and incorporated it into the maritime defense plans. “The Complete Map of Unified Maritime Territory ...

China Coast Guard vessel formation 1303 conducted a patrol within China's territorial waters off the Diaoyu Islands on Friday, the China Coast Guard said. In a brief statement posted online on ...

China and Japan are right to insist on secrecy in discussing how to resolve the East China Sea dispute. The arrival of Chinese near disputed islands prompts a blunt response from Tokyo.

“The Diaoyu Islands and affiliated islands are Chinese territory, so the sailing of Chinese Coast Guard ships in those waters is a valid measure based on law,” Wang Wenbin, a Chinese Foreign ...

China’s coastguard says it warned a Japanese fishing boat to leave its territorial waters near the disputed Diaoyu Islands, the latest confrontation in the area. The tiny, uninhabited islands in ...

BEIJING--A fleet of Chinese ships sailed in the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands on March 20, the coast guard said in a statement on Wednesday. The waters around Diaoyu Islands ...

U.S. B-1B bombers and Japanese fighters participated in a joint air drill in the vicinity of the Senkaku islands on August 15. The defense budget approved by Japan’s cabinet will see a moderate ...

He called on Japan to stop "illegal activities" in the waters, and said "Diaoyu and its affiliated islands have always been ...

The United States pledged support for ally Japan in a growing dispute with China over islands in the East China Sea and senior US administration officials accused Beijing of behavior that had ...

The uninhabited islands — known as the Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan — are claimed by Beijing but administered by ...