SpaceWar.com reports: “Japan’s top diplomat Takeshi Iwaya expressed ‘serious concerns’ to his Chinese counterpart over Beijing’s increasing military activity, Tokyo said Wednesday.
Iwaya also told Wang Yi in Beijing that ‘Japan is closely monitoring the Taiwan situation and recent military developments’, a Japanese foreign ministry statement said.
China regards Taiwan as its territory and has not ruled out using force to bring it under its control.
Taipei said earlier this month that Beijing had held its biggest maritime drills in years, stretching from near the southern islands of Japan to the South China Sea.
Iwaya ‘expressed serious concerns over the East China Sea situation, including around the Senkaku Islands (and) China’s increasing military activity,’ the statement said.
The chain of uninhabited islands claimed by Beijing but administered by Tokyo are known as the Diaoyu in China…”
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