China and Japan have reaffirmed their willingness to to push forward the return of bilateral relations to the path of healthy and stable development, the Chinese Foreign Ministry stated on Friday.
The Chinese People s Liberation Army (PLA) blocked a Philippine warship that trespassed into waters off China s Huangyan Dao (Huangyan Island) on Monday, amid escalated provocations by the Philippines around Chinese islands and reefs in the South China Sea, observers said
Beijing has called on Tokyo to stop intrusions of its vessels into waters around contested islets in the East China Sea known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan, Chinese coast guard spokesman Gan Yu stated on Tuesday.