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  • Chinese cook crashes on balloon to islands
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A Chinese cook who crashed into the sea while trying to fly on a hot-air balloon to islands claimed by both China and Japan has been rescued by Japan's Coast Guard.
Major events
  • April 16: Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara said that the metropolitan government plans to buy the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.
  • April 27: Ishihara announced that the metropolitan government had set up an account for people to send money to help it purchase the Diaoyu Islands.
  • July 7: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said his government was negotiating with a "private owner" to "nationalize" part of the Diaoyu Islands.
  • Aug 23: Fishing boat Kai Fung No 2 with 14 Chinese activists who sailed to the Diaoyu Islands to assert China's sovereignty returned to Hong Kong.
  • Aug 27: Japanese government intended to buy the Diaoyu Islands in a bid of 2 billion yen.
  • Sept 2: Tokyo completed the investigation of the Diaoyu Islands waters.
  • Sept 11: The Japanese government exchanged the official purchase contract with the "private owner".
  • Sept 14: China sent its maritime surveilance ships to waters around Diaoyu Islands.
  • Sept 15: The State Oceanic Administration of China released a string of geographic coordinates of the Diaoyu Island and some of its affiliated islets.
  • Sept 16: Beijing announced to submit outer limits of continental shelf in East China Sea to UN.
  • Sept. 17-21: US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta began his tour to Japan, China and New Zealand.
  • Diaoyu Islands profile
  • Diaoyu Islands, the eight uninhabited islands and rocks lie in the East China Sea. They have a total area of about 7 square km and lie east of the Chinese mainland and southwest of Japan's southern-most prefecture, Okinawa. They matter because they are close to strategically important shipping lanes, offer rich fishing grounds and are thought to contain oil deposits.
  • The islands have appeared on maps of China since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Fishermen from Taiwan and Fujian and other provinces have fished and collected herbs in this area for many generations. Records about the islands were published in a book during the rule of Ming emperor Yong Le (1403-1424), more than 400 years before Japan says it discovered the Diaoyu islands in 1884.
  • In 1895, through a war of aggression against China, Japan forced the Qing Government to sign the unequal Treaty of Shimonoseki, and forcibly occupied the province of Taiwan. When Taiwan was returned in the Treaty of San Francisco, China says the islands - as part of it - should also have been returned.
  • Chinese government statement
  • The Chinese government solemnly states that the Japanese government's so-called "purchase" of the Diaoyu Island is totally illegal and invalid. It does not change, not even in the slightest way, the historical fact of Japan's occupation of Chinese territory, nor will it alter China's territorial sovereignty over the Diaoyu Island and its affiliated islands. Long gone are the days when the Chinese nation was subject to bullying and humiliation from others. The Chinese government will not sit idly by watching its territorial sovereignty being infringed upon. The Chinese side strongly urges the Japanese side to immediately stop all actions that may undermine China's territorial sovereignty. Japan should truly come back to the very understanding and common ground reached between the two sides, and should return to the track of negotiated settlement of the dispute. Should the Japanese side insist on going its own way, it shall have to bear all serious consequences arising therefrom.
  • Military news
    US, Japan train for island defense
    US, Japan train for island defense
    Japan's military is sharpening its skills at defending remote islands with the help of US troops, as Tokyo faces an increasingly contentious dispute with China.
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