China military vexes Japan despite minister's visit
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A rare visit to Japan by a Chinese defense minister has done little to erase mutual suspicion over the Asian rivals' military ambitions, despite his assurances that Beijing poses no threat, Japanese media said on Friday.
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JAPAN was on alert yesterday after a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine entered its territorial waters. The submarine was detected in Japanese waters near islands disputed with China about 300km southwest
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The Chinese government again requests the Japanese government to correct its wrongdoing of permitting Lee Teng-Hui&#39;s tour to Japan, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said here Tuesday.
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The Japanese Foreign Ministry's Web site was slowed Tuesday, apparently by a massive number of attempts to access it, an official said.
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Facing strong protests, China broke a week-long silence Tuesday and offered Japan its first explanation about a Chinese submarine that Tokyo said intruded into Japanese territorial waters and refused to signal its identity.
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China tried to ease Tokyo's worries over its ballooning military spending in a meeting on Thursday at which the Asian rivals' defense ministers agreed to stage the first-ever visit by a Chinese warship to Japan.
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China on Friday expressed &quot;deep concern&quot; with Japan&#39;s overhaul of its defense policy. &quot;We are deeply concerned with the great changes of Japan&#39;s military defense strategy and
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A new special report by China on its defence forces shows the countryâs military modernisation is targeted at rival Taiwan, the Taiwanese Defence Ministry claimed today.
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Claims that China's military development is a threat are "totally groundless," Beijing's defense chief said in Tokyo on Thursday while assuring his Japanese hosts that China is becoming more open about its defense spending.
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An aging politician&#39;s desire to visit his alma mater has turned into a diplomatic confrontation between Japan and China, adding one more irritant to an already strained relationship between Asia&#39;s biggest powers.
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China's Cao Gangchuan begins a visit to Japan, the first by a Chinese defence minister in over nine years.
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A nuclear submarine that recently intruded into Japanese waters has been confirmed as belonging to the Chinese Navy. On Friday, the government lodged a strong protest with China over its submarine&#39;s incursion
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Japan lodged a formal protest with Beijing on Friday after determining that a nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters without identifying itself belonged to China.
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Japan has summoned a Chinese diplomat after determining the nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters near a disputed gas field and set off a high-seas chase did come from its giant neighbor.
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Ruling bloc and opposition lawmakers Thursday criticized the government&#39;s slow response to a mystery submarine that intruded into Japan&#39;s territorial waters the previous day.
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TOKYO, Nov. 12 -- Japan lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government on Friday after determining that an unidentified nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters this week belonged to China.
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A submarine that intruded into waters off Japan earlier this week has been identified as Chinese, Japan's top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said on Friday, adding that Tokyo would protest to Beijing.