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China Ship Armed With Autocannon Enters Japanese Waters, Harasses Fishing Vessel
On 2/16/21 at 8:02 AM EST
Two Chinese coast guard ships including one armed with an autocannon entered Japan s territorial waters for the second successive day Tuesday and harassed a Japanese fishing vessel, according to reports from Tokyo.
The Chinese government vessels joined two other China Coast Guard ships that had entered and remained in the contiguous zone adjacent to the waters of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands on Monday, said
Japan Times.
The energy-rich Senkakus in the East China Sea are uninhabited but also claimed by the governments of China and Taiwan, which refer to them as the Diaoyu and Diaoyutai Islands, respectively.